Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer.
"This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the sur...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (493 pages) |
| Notes: | Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband". Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts. |
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