Marriage and inequality in Chinese society

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Studies on China : a series of conference volumes. - Berkeley [u.a.] : Univ. of Calif. Press. - Vol. 12

Publisher description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.

Inhalt: Introduction / Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Marriages of the Ruling Elite in the Spring and Autumn Period / Melvin P. Thatcher. Imperial Marriage in the Native Chinese and Non-Han State, Han to Ming / Jennifer Holmgren. Shifts in Marriage Finance from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Century / Patricia Buckley Ebrey. The Marriage of Sung Imperial Clanswomen / John W. Chaffee. Ch'ing Imperial Marriage and Problems of Rulership / Evelyn S. Rawski. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Ch'ing Period / Susan Mann. Wives, Concubines, and Maids: Servitude and Kinship in the Hong Kong Region, 1900-1940 / Rubie S. Watson. Prostitution and the Market in Women in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter. Marriage and Mobility under Rural Collectivism / William Lavely. Women / Property, and Law in the People's Republic of China / Jonathan K. Ocko. Afterword: Marriage and Gender Inequality / Rubie S. Watson.