Marriage and inequality in Chinese society

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General notes

Papers 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 title page Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

Contents

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

Extended title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Marriage Marriage customs and rites Sex role Equality

associated with: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon), 1945-
associated with: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
associated with: Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies
associated with: Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society