"This volume was sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council"--P. opposite t.p. Papers presented at the Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, held Jan. 1988, Pacific Grove, Calif. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Marriage and mobility under rural collectivism / William Lavely -- Women, property, and law in the People's Republic of China / Jonathan K. Ocko -- Afterword : marriage and gender inequality / Rubie S. Watson. Marriages of the ruling elite in the Spring and Autumn period / Melvin P. Thatcher -- Imperial marriage in the native Chinese and non-Han state : Han to Ming / Jennifer Holmgren -- Shifts in marriage finance from the sixth to the thirteenth century / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- The marriage of Sung imperial clanswomen / John W. Chaffee -- Ch'ing imperial marriage and problems of rulership / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Grooming a daughter for marriage : brides and wives in the mid-Ch'ing period / Susan Mann -- Wives, concubines, and maids : servitude and kinship in the Hong Kong region, 1900-1940 / Rubie S. Watson -- Prostitution and the market in early twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter.
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