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China's Courts and Concubines
Author | : Bernard Llewellyn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2018-10-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429874383 |
This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people’s memories. Thus you will read of magicians and immortals; of dragons and pills of eternal life; of generals and eunuchs; of emperors and poets; of palaces and concubines. The author has made nothing up; if there are liars along the route, they were there before he came along. The study of stories and ballads from deep in a country’s past can tell a reader much about the present-day culture of a society; this is surely true with these tales from China’s history.
Concubines in Court
Author | : Lisa Tran |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2015-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442245905 |
This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Tran’s examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary China. Equally important is her use of court cases to assess how these shifts affected legal and social practice. Tran argues that this dramatic story has often been overlooked, leading to the mistaken conclusion that concubinage remained largely unchanged or quietly disappeared in “modern” China. Customarily viewed as a minor wife because her “husband” was already married, a concubine found her legal status in question under a political order that came to be based on the principles of monogamy and equality. Yet although the custom of concubinage came under attack in the early twentieth century, the image of the concubine stirred public sympathy. How did lawmakers attack the practice without jeopardizing the interests of concubines? Conversely, how did jurists protect the interests of women without appearing to sanction concubinage? How law and society negotiated these conflicting interests dramatically altered existing views of monogamy and marriage and restructured gender and family relations. As the first in-depth study of the meaning and practice of monogamy and concubinage in modern China, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and legal norms. In addition, by crossing the “1949 divide,” it compares the Guomindang’s designation of concubinage as adultery with the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of it as bigamy, and draws out the legal implications for the practice of concubinage as well as for women who were concubines. Poised at the intersection of Chinese history, women’s history, and legal history, this book makes a unique and significant contribution to the scholarship in all three fields.
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Subjects
Author | : University of California (System). Institute of Library Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Women Shall Not Rule
Author | : Keith McMahon |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442222905 |
Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author | : New York Public Library. Research Libraries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Library catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Library of Congress Catalog
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Subject |
ISBN | : |
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China
Author | : Hsieh Bao Hua |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2014-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739145169 |
In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individualconcubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their “positional powers” and “privilege of the inferiors” in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period. For a list of the book's tables and their sources, please see: http://www.wou.edu/wp/hsiehb/
National Union Catalog
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English imprints |
ISBN | : |