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Title Marriage and inequality in Chinese society [electronic resource] / edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.

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Description xvii, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies on China ; 12
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Papers presented at the Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, held Jan. 1988, Pacific Grove, Calif.
"This volume was sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council"--P. opposite t.p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject Marriage -- China -- History.
Marriage customs and rites -- China -- History.
Sex role -- China -- History.
Equality -- China -- History.
Added Author Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon), 1945-
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
American Council of Learned Societies.
Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (1988 : Pacific Grove, Calif.)
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0520069307
0520071247
Standard No. 2027/heb04216 hdl

 
    
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