Nonetheless, RCAs continue to abound among the general public. If as Shirley Ardener suggests, RCAs are part of a process of transition to a modern society, can China really have been undergoing this process for more than a thousand years without completing it?
若照 Shirley Ardener 的說法，合會是過渡到現代社會的一個「過程」，中國這條路竟走了一千多年還沒有走完？