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'''Elizabeth Fox-Genovese''' ([[May 28]], [[1941]]- [[January 2]], [[2007]]) was a [[feminist]] [[United States|American]] [[historian]] particularly known for her writing about women in the [[Antebellum South]]. She was also a primary voice of the [[social conservatism|conservative]] women's movement.

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The '''Punti''' ([[Traditional Chinese character|Chinese]]: 本地; [[Cantonese language|Cantonese]] {{IPA2|pʊn₃₅ teɪ₃₃}}, [[Jyutping]]: bun2 dei3; [[Mandarin language|Mandarin]] [[Pinyin]]: Běn Dì), a rough transliteration of the [[Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese]] term for "original locality," refers to the [[Cantonese (linguistic)|Cantonese]]-speaking populations of southern [[China]], namely, [[Guangdong]] province. They are contrasted with another [[Han Chinese]] linguistic group, the [[Hakka]], which settled in the area after the Punti peoples and follow different cultural traditions.

==Biography==

[[Image:Punti_farmers.jpg|thumb|left|500px|Two Punti farmers taking care of their field.]]

The daughter of [[Cornell University|Cornell]] professor [[Edward Whiting Fox]], a specialist in the history of [[modern Europe]], Fox-Genovese studied at the [[Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris]] in France and attended [[Bryn Mawr College]] where she received a [[B.A.]] and [[Harvard University]] where she received a [[Master's degree|M.A.]] and a [[Ph.D.]] in history. She was a professor of history at [[Emory University]], where she was the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the [[Humanities]] and the founding director of the Institute for [[Women's Studies]]. At the Institute, she began the first [[doctorate|doctoral]] program in Women's Studies in the [[U.S.]] and personally directed thirty-two doctoral [[dissertation]]s. In 2003 [[George W. Bush]] awarded her the [[National Humanities Medal]].<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Atlanta: Dr. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, unorthodox scholar |url=http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/obits/stories/2007/01/04/metobfoxgenovese0104a.html |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date=2007-01-04 |accessdate=2007-01-05 }}</ref> She was married to and sometimes collaborated with fellow historian [[Eugene D. Genovese]].

In 1995, Fox-Genovese publicly [[religious conversion|converted]] to [[Roman Catholicism]], due in part to the pride and self-centeredness that she said she witnessed in the [[secularism|secular]] [[academia|academy]].<ref name="Conversion">{{cite_journal|url=http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0004/articles/fox-genovese.html |title=A Conversion Story | author=Elizabeth Fox–Genovese | journal=First Things | issue=102 | date=April 2000 | pages=39-43 | accessdate=2007-01-05}}</ref> Some found her reputation as a feminist as being at odds with her conversion, but she herself found it to be "wholly consistent"<ref name="Obit"/> and wrote, "Sad as it may seem, my experience with radical, upscale feminism only reinforced my growing mistrust of individual pride."<ref name="Conversion"/>

==History==

[[Image:Fanling2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|The deserted market in Luen Wo Hui, [[Fanling]], originally run by Puntis.]]

:''Main article: [[Hong Kong during Imperial China]]''

The [[Mongol|Mongolian]] conquest of the [[Song Dynasty]] pushed even more [[Han Chinese]] refugees into the area including the descendants of the Chinese patriotic leader [[Wen Tianxiang]]. The "[[Great Five Clans]]" — the [[Hou (surname)|Hau]] (&#20505;), [[Deng|Tang]] (&#37159;), [[Peng|Pang]] (&#24429;), [[Liao|Liu]] (&#24278;), and [[Wen|Man]] (&#25991;) — were among the earliest recorded familial settlers of Hong Kong. Despite the immigration and light development of agriculture, the area was still relatively barren and had to rely on [[salt]], [[pearl]] and [[fisheries in Hong Kong|fishery trade]]s.

==Scholarship==

:''Main article: [[Punti-Hakka Clan Wars]]''

Fox-Genovese's academic interests changed from [[French history]] to the history of women before the [[American Civil War]], and Virginia Shadron, assistant dean at Emory, said that ''Within the Plantation Household'' cemented her reputation as a scholar of women in the [[Old South]].<ref name="Obit"/>

From 1854 to 1867 there were a series of battles between the Punti and [[Hakka]] peoples, concentrated mainly in the County of [[Taishan]].

Fox-Genovese also wrote scholarly and popular works on feminism itself, and through all of her writings, she alienated many [[radical feminists]] and attracted many conservative feminists. [[Princeton University]] history professor [[Sean Wilentz]] said, "She probably did more for the conservative women's movement than anyone.... [Her] voice came from inside the academy and updated the ideas of the conservative women's movement. She was one of their most influential intellectual forces."<ref name="Obit"/>

==Usage in Hong Kong==

Punti has become a commonly used word in [[Hong Kong law]] courts and other authorities such as the [[police]]; it is a transliteration of Cantonese 'Boon Dei' meaning 'local'. When a defendant is using 'Punti' in court, that means he elects to use Cantonese as the language in [[trial]] instead of English. Despite the reference of "Punti" in this context means nothing much more than "[[Cantonese]]" as a spoken language, there are political and practical reasons of not using direct reference to the word "[[Cantonese]]".

==Selected writings==

Practically, "[[Cantonese]]" can be used to mean all the dialects in the [[Guangdong]] ([[Canton]]) province. And the Cantonese spoken in [[Guangzhou]] ([[Canton]]) are actually a bit different both in accent and vocabulary than that in Hong Kong.

*''The Origins of Physiocracy: Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-century France'', Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1976. ISBN 978-0801410062

*''Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism'' with Eugene D. Genovese, New York York: Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0195031577

* ''Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South'', series on Gender and American Culture, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0807842324

*''Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism'', University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0807843727

*''"Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life": How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women'', Anchor reprint, 1996 ISBN 978-0385467919

*''Marriage On Trial: In Defense Of An Endangered Institution'', Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1932236385

*''The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview'' with Eugene D. Genovese, Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521615624

==References==

Nonetheless, the difference is becoming less significance as the [[Guangdong]] province is becoming more and more influenced by Hong Kong culture and linguistic, thanks to the wide Hong Kong television coverage in [[Southern China]]. Further, the influx of immigrants and visitors from Guangdong also means their use of vocabularies finds its way to daily Hong Kong usage.

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==External links==

Politically, the former [[colonial government]] wishes to maintain Hong Kong's sense of independence and does not wish to tacitly admit its common root with [[Guangdong]] or Southern China in its law courts and other authorities.

*[http://www.womensstudies.emory.edu/facstaff/faculty_foxgenovese.shtml Biography of Fox-Genovese] at the Women's Studies Department at Emory

*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07fox-genovese.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin Obituary of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese] at the ''[[New York Times]]''

*[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2U0NzViMDdmZmViYjVlYjc2NTY0MzRkYjJlYzQzNDI= Obituary of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese] at the ''[[National Review]]''

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==See also==

[[Category:Hong1941 Kongbirths]]

*[[Agriculture in Hong Kong]]

[[Category:2007 deaths]]

*[[Hoklo]]

[[Category:Feminist historians]]

*[[Tanka (ethnic group)|Tanka]]

[[Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism]]

*[[Great Five Clans]]

[[Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni]]

*[[Cantonese people]]

[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]

*[[Punti-Hakka Clan Wars]]

[[Category:Demographics_of_Hong_Kong]]

[[Category:Hong Kong]]