Dr. Marjorie Topley is a cultural anthropologist trained at the London School of Economics. She moved to Singapore with her husband, Kenneth, in the early 1950s and was hired as the curator of anthropology at the Raffles Museum in 1951. In 1955 the Topleys moved to Hong Kong and in 1958 Dr. Topley received her PhD from the London School of Economics for her research on the organization and social function of Chinese women’s vegetarian halls in Singapore. Dr. Topley published her first articles on Chinese religion in Singapore in 1951 in the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and until her return to England in 1983, she conducted path-breaking research in both Singapore and Hong Kong, participated in international conferences and published extensively in the fields of Chinese medical anthropology, anthropology of religion, migration studies, and gender studies. One of the pillars of Dr. Topley’s intellectual life and contribution in Hong Kong undoubtedly was her involvement in the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. She played a major role in the revival of the society in 1959 and helped create a vibrant organization that forms a bridge between scholarly researchers and a wider public including policymakers and members of the city’s business community. Dr. Topley served as the branch’s vice-president from 1966 to 1972 and as its president from 1972 to 1983. Dr. Marjorie Topley passed away in December 2010 at her home in England. Jean DeBernardi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her areas of specialization include Chinese in Southeast Asia; the anthropology of religion; and ethnicity, nationalism, and transnationalism. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on Chinese popular religion in Malaysia and Singapore, and her publications include Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity and Identity in a Malaysian Chinese Community (2004) and The Way that Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia (2006).

• List of Illustrations(第vii頁)
• Foreword(第xi頁)
• Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money(第1頁)
• Part I Chinese Ritual Practice in Singapore(第25頁)
  • Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by the Singapore Cantonese(第27頁)
  • Chapter 2 Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom(第57頁)
  • Chapter 3 Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship(第73頁)
  • Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese(第97頁)
  • Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note(第101頁)
• Part II Religious Associations in Singapore and China(第105頁)
  • Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore(第107頁)
  • Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutionsin Singapore(第125頁)
  • Chapter 8 The Emergence and Social Function of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore(第175頁)
  • Chapter 9 The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects(第203頁)
  • Chapter 10 Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century(第241頁)
Part III Economy and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong(第273頁)
• Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese(第275頁)
• Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories(第331頁)
Part IV Religion and Society: Hong Kong and Guangdong(第363頁)
• Chapter 13 Some Basic Conceptions and Their Traditional Relationship to Society(第365頁)
• Chapter 14 Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong(第381頁)
• Chapter 15 Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T’ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven)(co-authored with James Hayes)(第405頁)
• Chapter 16 Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung(第423頁)
Part V Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong(第447頁)
• Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong(第449頁)
• Chapter 18 Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome(第471頁)
• Chapter 19 Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change(第489頁)
• Chapter 20 Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong(第523頁)
Appendix Glossary of Chinese Terms(第549頁)
Index(第573頁)