LEADER 05879nam 2200937 450 001 9910817454903321 005 20230126213018.0 010 $a0-520-96219-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520962194 035 $a(CKB)3710000000442139 035 $a(EBL)2068205 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001517698 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12496719 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517698 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11505321 035 $a(PQKB)10657632 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001370988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2068205 035 $a(DE-B1597)518847 035 $a(OCoLC)913086388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520962194 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2068205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11071306 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL808596 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000442139 100 $a20150429h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPolyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China $esurvival strategies and judicial interventions /$fMatthew H. Sommer 210 1$aOakland, California :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (493 p.) 300 $aPolyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband". Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible adjudication of routine cases in the local courts. 311 0 $a0-520-28703-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tCONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT --$tMAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" --$t2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry --$t3. The Intermediate Range of Practice --$t4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale --$t5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales --$t6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales --$t7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children --$t8. Four Variations on a Theme --$t9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing --$t10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales --$t11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts --$tConclusion --$tAPPENDICES --$tCHARACTER LIST --$tNOTES --$tREFERENCES --$tINDEX 330 $a"This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a second husband in exchange for his help supporting her family. In contrast, wife sale was a means to survive by breaking up a family: a husband would secure an emergency infusion of cash while his wife would escape poverty and secure a fresh start with another man. Even though Qing law prohibited both practices under the rubric "illicit sexual relations," Sommer shows how magistrates charged with propagating and enforcing a fundamentalist Confucian vision of female chastity tried to cope with their social reality in the face of daunting poverty. This contradiction illuminates both the pragmatism of routine adjudication and the increasingly dysfunctional nature of the dynastic state in the face of mounting social crisis. By casting a spotlight on the rural poor and the experiences of both men and women, Sommer provides an alternative to the standard paradigms of women's history that have long dominated scholarship on gender and sexuality in late imperial China."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aMarried women$zChina$xSocial conditions$vCase studies 606 $aPolyandry$zChina$vCase studies 606 $aRural poor$zChina$vCase studies 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1644-1912 610 $aasian culture. 610 $aasian studies. 610 $achinese culture. 610 $achinese law. 610 $achinese wives. 610 $aeast asian history. 610 $agender studies. 610 $ahistory of wife selling. 610 $aimperial china. 610 $alate imperial china. 610 $amarital practices in imperial china. 610 $amarriage and family in china. 610 $amarriage and sex in china. 610 $amarriage in china. 610 $amultiple spouses in china. 610 $apolyandry. 610 $apolygamy in rural poor. 610 $aqing china. 610 $aqing dynasty history. 610 $aqing dynasty. 610 $arural poor in china. 610 $asecond husbands in china. 610 $asocial history of china. 610 $awife selling in china. 610 $awife selling in qing china. 615 0$aMarried women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aPolyandry 615 0$aRural poor 676 $a306.0951/09032 700 $aSommer$b Matthew Harvey$f1961-$0720058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817454903321 996 $aPolyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China$91398617 997 $aUNINA