Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore
by: Freedman, Maurice

Softcover. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stiff orange paper wrappers. 249 pages. An interesting and comprehensive exploration of Chinese families in Singapore. Maurice Freedman (1920-1975) was a British scholar who was one of the world's leading experts on Chinese anthropology. Includes chapters on 'The Social Background', 'The Household', 'The Kinship System', and many more. Frontispiece photograph of a Chinese Mass Wedding. There are also an appendix of tables, another on Chinese characters for Hokkien words used in the text and an index. Clean copy.