Sold People : : Traffickers and Family Life in North China / / Johanna S. Ransmeier.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ransmeier, Johanna S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 15 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables
• 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
• 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.

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.