Religion and ritual in Lukang
essay 1974 DeGlopper, Donald R.

Taiwan HokkienAsia > East Asia
This essay contains an explanation why the town of Lukang displays a greater proliferation of temples and more conservative 'style' of public ritual than other localities in Taiwan. DeGlopper views neighborhood temples as providing Lukang residents w...

Social structure in a nineteenth-century Taiwanese port city
essay 1977 DeGlopper, Donald R.

Taiwan HokkienAsia > East Asia
DeGlopper's use of the term 'social structure' is meant to refer only to the town of Lukang's 'major, enduring corporate groups and to patterned relations among them' (p. 637). Based upon both field and archival research, DeGlopper identifies two suc...

Doing business in Lukang
essay 1978 DeGlopper, Donald R.

Taiwan HokkienAsia > East Asia
De Glopper provides here an interpretive analysis of Taiwanese business practices in the town of Lukang. The informal mechanisms of local economic exchange -- particularly with regard to wholesaling and retailing activity -- are related to fundamenta...

City on the sands
Book 1983 DeGlopper, Donald R.

Taiwan HokkienAsia > East Asia
Using data from the city of Lukang (a Ch'uan-cho city), DeGlopper examines the theory that it is possible to construct a model of Chinese urban social structure. DeGlopper discusses the theoretical issues involved, the city of Lukang, Lukang in space...