Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing Dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions /

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This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Temas:
1644-1912
Married women > China > Social conditions > Case studies.
Polyandry > China > Case studies.
Rural poor > China > Case studies.
Femmes mariées > Chine > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Polyandrie > Chine > Études de cas.
Pauvres en milieu rural > Chine > Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Married women > Social conditions
Polyandry
Rural poor
Social conditions
China > Social conditions > 1644-1912.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1644-1912.
China
asian culture.
asian studies.
chinese culture.
chinese law.
chinese wives.
east asian history.
gender studies.
history of wife selling.
imperial china.
late imperial china.
marital practices in imperial china.
marriage and family in china.
marriage and sex in china.
marriage in china.
multiple spouses in china.
polyandry.
polygamy in rural poor.
qing china.
qing dynasty history.
qing dynasty.
rural poor in china.
second husbands in china.
social history of china.
wife selling in china.
wife selling in qing china.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Conventions in the Text; Map: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800; Introduction; PART ONE: POLYANDRY; 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband"; 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry; 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice; PART TWO: WIFE-SELLING; 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale; 5. Analysis of Prices in Wife Sales; 6. Negotiations between Men in Wife Sales; 7. Wives, Natal Families, and Children; 8. Four Variations on a Theme; PART THREE: POLYANDRY AND WIFE-SELLING IN QING LAW.
  • 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales; 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts; Conclusion; Appendices A-E; APPENDIX A: QING DYNASTY REIGN PERIODS (1644-1912); APPENDIX B: PROFILES OF THE PROTAGONISTS IN WIFE SALES; APPENDIX C: PRICES IN WIFE SALES; APPENDIX D: THE QING PENAL SYSTEM; APPENDIX E: JUDICIAL REVIEW (AS SEEN IN XINGKE TIBEN); Character List; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

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