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Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China : The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong's New Territories, 1750-1950 /
Land was always at the center of life in Hong Kong's rural New Territories: it sustained livelihoods and lineages and, for some, was a route to power. During imperial times villagers managed their land according to customs that were often at odds with formal Chinese law. British rule, 1898 to 1...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The traditional New Territories, land and society
- The imperial land law
- The customary land law
- Registration for the land tax and collection of land tax
- Arable land : family holdings, trusts and clan holdings
- Restraints on transactions in land
- The next heir
- The middleman and the role of the community in land transactions
- Temporary and reversible alienations : mortgages and leases
- Land deeds and the Japanese occupation, 1941-1945
- An overview
- Customary land deeds.