Chinese Charitable Organizations in Hong Kong Today : An Example of Cooperation between Anthropology and History

ホンコン ニオケル カジン ジゼン ダンタイ ノ ゲンザイ ジンルイガク ト レキシガク ノ キョウドウ エ ムケテ

セリザワ, サトヒロ

Serizawa, Satohiro

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

歴史学

慈善団体

華人社会

香港

anthropology

history

charitable organization

Chinese society

Hong Kong

Recently, many researches of Chinese history are done on the field of charitable activities in the Chinese society. This article is the attempt for an anthropological approarch to this field: the description of the Chinese charitable organizations in the contemporary Hong Kong by focusing on the social and cultural situations around them and their historical backgrounds. In today's Hong Kong, we can distinguish the Chinese charitable organization from the Western one in terms of the service and the way of management. The six organizations described in this article are influential and prestigious within the community. People know them well through their services and fund raising activities. And the government has been playing an important role in the process of their historical development. Further, through negotiation with the government, Chinese charitable organizations may be reorganized and change their "tradition". The Chinese charitable organization has been working as one of the important social institutions for Hong Kong residents for a long time and providing interesting materials for anthropological and historical researches.

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