The Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia Volume 42 LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Series

This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chinese and, in a sense, transcends it. For it relates its conclusions on the evolution the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence from other overseas Chinese communities, and moves on to a comparison between overseas Chinese social organization and the organization of cities in China. Cambodia, the overseas Chinese, and traditional China all stand illuminated.

I. INTRODUCTION .2. ORIGINS OF THE CONGREGATION SYSTEM 3· THE CONGREGATION SYSTEM UNDER THE FRENCH 4· CHINESE SO CIAL ORGANIZATION WITHIN THE CONGREGATION 5· ALTERNATIVE CENTRES OF POWER 6. THE END OF THE CONGREGATIONS 7• THE RISE OF VOLUNTARY ASSO CIATIONS 8. RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF CHINESE COMMUNITY LIFE 9· ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CHINESE COMMUNITY LIFE IO. LEADERSHIP IN THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN PHNOM-PENH 11. CHINESE SO CIAL ORGANIZATION IN SMALLER TOWNS 12. COMPARISONS WITH OTHER OVERSEAS CHINESE COMMUNITIES I3. BEYOND A CONCLUSION

W. E. Willmott is Associate Professor of anthropology in the University of British Columbia.