05021oam 2200961 a 450 991049587610332120240111025722.00-520-91045-10-585-10853-62027/heb04216(CKB)111004366704200(MH)001888290-0(SSID)ssj0000084490(PQKBManifestationID)11120347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084490(PQKBWorkID)10168374(PQKB)11391555(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083833(dli)HEB04216(MiU)MIU01000000000000005400271(DE-B1597)647785(DE-B1597)9780520910454(EXLCZ)9911100436670420019900226d1991 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMarriage and inequality in Chinese society /edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley EbreyBerkeley, Calif. ;London University of California Pressc19911 online resource (xvii, 385 p. )ill. ;Studies on China Marriage and inequality in Chinese societyStudies on China ;12Papers presented at the Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, held Jan. 1988, Pacific Grove, Calif."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.0-520-06930-7 0-520-07124-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. --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.Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.Studies on China ;v. 12.MarriageChinaHistoryCongressesMarriage customs and ritesChinaHistoryCongressesSex roleChinaHistoryCongressesEqualityChinaHistoryCongressesMarriageChinaCongressesMarried womenChinaCongressesMarriageChinaHistoryMarriage customs and ritesHistoryChinaSex roleChinaHistoryEqualityHistoryChinaSociology & Social HistoryHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCFamily & MarriageHILCCChinaSocial conditionsCongressesMarriageHistoryMarriage customs and ritesHistorySex roleHistoryEqualityHistoryMarriageMarried womenMarriageHistory.Marriage customs and ritesHistorySex roleHistory.EqualityHistorySociology & Social HistorySocial SciencesFamily & Marriage306.81/0951Watson Rubie S(Rubie Sharon),1945-1021324Ebrey Patricia Buckley1947-637588Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society(1988 :Pacific Grove, Calif.)DLCDLCPMCSLRBOOK9910495876103321Marriage and inequality in Chinese society3656406UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress