LEADER 04832nam 2200637 a 450 001 996248025503316 005 20200526163658.0 010 $a0-8047-6433-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804764339 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007218 035 $a(dli)HEB04221 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084854 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084854 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10008194 035 $a(PQKB)11130980 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037377 035 $a(DE-B1597)582584 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804764339 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000005809852 035 $a(OCoLC)1312726602 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007218 100 $a19990721d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSex, law, and society in late imperial China /$fMatthew H. Sommer 210 1$aStanford, Calif. :$cStanford University Press,$d[2000] 215 $a1 online resource $cmaps 225 1 $aLaw, society, and culture in China 225 0$aLaw, society, and culture in China 311 $a0-8047-4559-5 311 $a0-8047-3695-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPreface -- $tContents -- $tA Note on Conventions -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 A Vision of Sexual Order -- $t3 The Evolution of Rape Law: Female Chastity and the Threat of the Outside Male -- $t4 The Problem of the Penetrated Male: Qing Sodomy Legislation and the Fixing of Male Gender -- $t5 Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives -- $t6 Sexual Behavior as Status Performance: The Regulation of Prostitution Before 1723 -- $t7 The Extension of Commoner Standards: Yongzheng Reforms and the Criminalization of Prostitution -- $t8 Conclusion -- $tAppendixes -- $tA Basic Legislation Against Sex Offenses -- $tB Qing Sodomy Legislation -- $tC Forced Remarriage of Chaste Widows -- $tD Lu Kun's "Prohibitions Issued to Yue Households" -- $tE Dynasties and Reign Periods -- $tReference Matter -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tCharacter List -- $tIndex 330 $aThis study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the basic organizing principle for state regulation of sexuality shifted away from status, under which members of different groups had long been held to distinct standards of familial and sexual morality. In its place, a new regime of gender mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability across status boundaries?all people were expected to conform to gender roles defined in terms of marriage. This shift in the regulation of sexuality, manifested in official treatment of charges of adultery, rape, sodomy, widow chastity, and prostitution, represented the imperial state?s efforts to cope with disturbing social and demographic changes. Anachronistic status categories were discarded to accommodate a more fluid social structure, and the state initiated new efforts to enforce rigid gender roles and thus to shore up the peasant family against a swelling underclass of single, rogue males outside the family system. These men were demonized as sexual predators who threatened the chaste wives and daughters (and the young sons) of respectable households, and a flood of new legislation targeted them for suppression. In addition to presenting official and judicial actions regarding sexuality, the book tells the story of people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and household who bonded with each other in unorthodox ways (combining sexual union with resource pooling and fictive kinship) to satisfy a range of human needs. This previously invisible dimension of Qing social practice is brought into sharp focus by the testimony, gleaned from local and central court archives, of such marginalized people as peasants, laborers, and beggars. 410 0$aLaw, society, and culture in China. 606 $aSex crimes$zChina$xHistory 606 $aSex and law$zChina$xHistory 606 $aSex customs$zChina$xHistory 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1644-1912 607 $aChina$xHistory$yQing dynasty, 1644-1912 615 0$aSex crimes$xHistory. 615 0$aSex and law$xHistory. 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory. 676 $a306.7/0951 700 $aSommer$b Matthew Harvey$f1961-$0720058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248025503316 996 $aSex, law and society in late imperial China$91738290 997 $aUNISA