Marriage and inequality in Chinese society / [electronic resource]
Watson, Rubie S.(Rubie Sharon),1945-
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley,1947-
Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society(1988 :Pacific Grove, Calif.)
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c1991.
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.
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 t.p.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Marriage
Marriage customs and rites
Sex role
Equality
Marriage
Married women
Marriage
Marriage customs and rites
Sex role
Equality
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Family & Marriage