Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law
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Concubines In Court
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Author : Lisa Tran
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2015-06-01
Concubines In Court written by Lisa Tran and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-01 with History categories.
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.
Chinese Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Max WL Wong
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-02-10
Chinese Marriage And Social Change written by Max WL Wong and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-10 with Political Science categories.
This book provides a comparative account of the abolition of concubinage in East Asia, offering a new perspective and revised analysis of the factors leading to – and the debates surrounding – the introduction of a new Marriage Reform Ordinance in Hong Kong in 1971. It uses this law as a platform to examine how the existence of concubinage – long preserved in the name of protecting Chinese traditions and customs — crucially influenced family law reforms, which were in response to a perceived need to create a ‘modern’ marriage system within Hong Kong’s Chinese community after the Second World War. This was, by and large, the result of continued pressure from within Hong Kong and from Britain to bring Hong Kong’s marriage system in line with international marriage treaties. It represented one of the last significant intrusions of colonial law into the private sphere of Hong Kong social life, eliminating Chinese customs which had been previously recognised by the colonial legal system’s family law. This book contextualizes the Hong Kong situation by examining judicial cases interpreting Chinese customs and the Great Qing Code, offering a comprehensive understanding of the Hong Kong situation in relation to the status of concubines in Republican China and other East Asian jurisdictions. It will be of particular interest to teachers and students of law, as well as researchers in gender studies, post-colonialism, sociology and cultural studies.
Conservatism In Modern Chinese Family Law
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Author : Marius Hendrikus van der Valk
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1956
Conservatism In Modern Chinese Family Law written by Marius Hendrikus van der Valk and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Domestic relations categories.
The Family Revolution In Modern China
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Author : Marion Joseph Levy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Family Revolution In Modern China written by Marion Joseph Levy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Social Science categories.
Concubines And Bondservants
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Author : Maria Jaschok
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Concubines And Bondservants written by Maria Jaschok and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Women In Traditional China
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Author : Susan Hill Gross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Women In Traditional China written by Susan Hill Gross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Women categories.
Empress Dowager Cixi
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Author : Jung Chang
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-09-26
Empress Dowager Cixi written by Jung Chang and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with History categories.
Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs – with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman. ‘Powerful’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘Truly authoritative’ New York Times ‘Wonderful’ Sunday Times **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize**
China S Left Behind Wives
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Author : Huifen Shen
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2012-06-01
China S Left Behind Wives written by Huifen Shen and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Social Science categories.
In China's Left-Behind Wives, Huifen Shen tells the extraordinary story of an overlooked group of women who played an important role in one of the largest waves of migration in history. For roughly a century starting around 1850, large numbers of young men from southern China travelled to Southeast Asia in search of work. Some were married and others returned to marry, but they routinely left their wives in China to handle family affairs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, archival materials, local gazetteers, newspapers and periodicals, the author describes the experiences of left-behind wives in the Quanzhou region of Fujian from the 1930s to the 1050s, a time when war and political change caused customary practices to break down. Migrant marriages were nearly always arranged, and girls rarely met their husbands before the wedding. Normally a bride lived with her new husband for just a few weeks or months, after which he went abroad. The circumstances in the 1940s and 1950s were such that many of these young women rarely, or never, saw their husbands again. When the Pacific War cut off communications, the loss of remittance money meant that they faced a difficult struggle for survival. The war's end brought a brief respite, but the communist ascendency led to further difficult adjustments. Ultimately, the experiences of the left-behind wives drew them into public life and business, and as Overseas Chinese policies, and attitudes towards women, changed in China, they came to play an increasingly significant part in the processes of development and modernization.
Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law
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Author : Lisa Tran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law written by Lisa Tran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Concubinage categories.
Marriage And Inequality In Chinese Society
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Author : Rubie S. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1991-04-02
Marriage And Inequality In Chinese Society written by Rubie S. Watson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-02 with History categories.
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.