F Helen Siu – författare

The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.

In this interdisciplinary study, the authors argue that Hong Kong must develop and strengthen the mobility, broadly defi ned, of its population.This is at the heart of its need to face the challenges from a changing global environment.