The book, however, ranges beyond an economic history of the hamlet, to examine poverty, crime and punishment, as well as education, religion, leisure and politics.
In addition, larger vessels home port in larger urban areas rather than in the traditional fishing villages and hamlets strung along the coast.
Earlier settlements were mere hamlets which consisted of a handful of houses.
Long before war actually broke out, the little villages and once-sleepy hamlets had become busy centres of militia activities.
The coexistence of new industrial town and remnant agrarian hamlet was thus increasingly untenable.
These were stories told and retold at night in the bagdiparas (hamlets), cherished and honoured for the daring, the physical prowess, the cunning.
This is not some remote hamlet where there are no police or law courts.
Newly appointed responsibility heads (baihu) and hamlet (zhai) heads were to work closely with a new line of troop posts linked with the main garrisons.
