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Fenjia : household division and inheritance in Qing and Republican China /

The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the centre of the transmission of economic control from one generation to the next. In assembling a body of data concerned with fenjia (household division) in Qing and Republican China, this text investigates one of the central top...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wakefield, David, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2 .Inheritance Law and Practice before the Qing
  • Chapter 3. Qing Household Division: Why, When, and How?
  • Chapter 4 .The Rights of Individuals in Qing Taiwan
  • Chapter 5. Dividing Different Types of Property in Qing Taiwan
  • Chapter 6 .Household Division Disputes in Qing Courts
  • Chapter 7. Republican Rural North China
  • Chapter 8. Region and Class: Exceptions, Strategies, and Orientations
  • Chapter 9. Household Division and Society: Land, Orientations, and Social Mobility
  • Chapter 10 .Conclusions and Speculations
  • Appendix 1. China's Laws on Inheritance
  • Appendix 2. Historical Sources and Their Limits
  • Appendix 3 .Chinese Terms for Weights and Measures
  • Appendix 4: Chinese Terms for Guarantors on Household Division Documents, by Province
  • Appendix 5: Common Terms for Household Division Documents, by Province.