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Women, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368) /
This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity
- Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals
- Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property
- Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts
- T'ang Inheritance and Property Law
- 2. Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times
- Sung Law and the Legal System
- Transmission of Wealth to Women
- Daughters and Sons in Family Division
- Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors
- Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers
- New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households
- Intervention of the State
- Daughters and Posthumous Heirs
- Women's Property within Marriage
- Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death
- Remarriage and the Law
- Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive
- Divorce
- Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs
- Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law
- 3. Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung
- Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance
- Opposition to Private Property within Marriage
- Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation
- Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship
- Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung
- Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars
- Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers
- Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household
- Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers
- Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals
- 4. Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan
- Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society
- Law in the Yuan Dynasty
- Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance
- Inheritance in Cut-off Households
- Women's Separate Property in Marriage
- Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan
- Stage 1. Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271
- Stage 2. Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276
- Stage 3. Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294
- Stage 4. Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320
- Stage 5. Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan
- Post-Yuan Developments. Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals.