Sold People : : Traffickers and Family Life in North China / / Johanna S. Ransmeier.
Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restru...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 15 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. A Young Woman as Portable Property -- 2. The Flow of Trafficking in the Late Qing -- 3. New Laws and Emerging Language -- 4. Fictive Families and Children in the Marketplace -- 5. Moving beyond the Reach of the Law -- 6. The Warlord's Widow and the Chief of Police -- 7. Domestic Bonds -- 8. Talking with Traffickers -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chinese Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674977211 9783110649826 9783110540550 9783110625264 9783110547764 9783110543315 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674977211 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Johanna S. Ransmeier. |