Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-316) and index.
Contents:
Part I. Locality, marriage practice, and women -- The case of Feng v. Zhang : marriage reform in a revolutionary region -- The appeal : women, love, marriage, and the revolutionary state -- Part II. Legal practice and new principle -- The new adjudication : judicial construction in marriage reform -- A new principle in the making : from "freedom" to "self-determination" of marriage through legal practice -- Part III. Politics and gender in construction -- Newspaper reports : casting a new democracy in village communities -- The Qin opera and the ballad : from rebellious daughters to social mothers -- The Ping opera and film : nationalizing the new marriage practice and politicizing the state-family, 1949-1960 -- Epilogue : " Liu Qiao'er," law, and zizhu : beyond 1960.
Series:
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
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