num_pages: 160
description: The practice of selling young daughters was common in southern China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the practice was formally abolished in 1923, the underlying social evaluation and attitudes survive and their importance is no less today than it was yesterday.
language: English
title: Concubines and Bond Servants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom
titlecomplete: Concubines and Bond Servants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Zed Books