Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan : : Cases from the ‹i›Yuan dianzhang‹/i› /

Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan : : Cases from the ‹i›Yuan dianzhang‹/i› / / Bettine Birge.

These thirteenth-century legal cases from the classic compendium Yuan dianzhang reveal the complex, contradictory inner workings of the Mongol-Yuan legal system, as seen through the prism of divorce, adultery, rape, wife-selling, and other marital disputes. Bettine Birge offers a meticulously annota...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Birge, Bettine,
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 (336 p.) :; 5 halftones, 4 maps, 6 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps, Figures, and Charts
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Historical and Social Context of the Yuan dianzhang
  • 2. Yuan Administration and the Legal System
  • 3. Origins, Contents, and Transmission of the Yuan dianzhang
  • 4. Notes on the Translation
  • 5. Sections 1-2: Marriage Rites and Exchanges; Getting Married
  • 6. Sections 3-5: Marriage between Officials and Commoners; Marriages of Military Personnel; Divorce
  • 7. Sections 6-8: When the Husband Dies; Levirate Marriage; 208 No Levirate Marriage
  • 8. Sections 9-12: Secondary Wives; Marriage between Slaves and Commoners; Marriage of Entertainers; Marriage during the Mourning Period
  • Appendix A. Translation of Title Page of the Yuan dianzhang
  • Appendix B. Marriage Cases from Chapter 18 of the Yuan dianzhang in Chronological Order
  • Appendix C. Marriage Cases from Chapter 18 of the Yuan dianzhang with Dates
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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