Women and property in China
Subtitle: 960-1949
By: Kathryn Bernhardt.
Series: Law, society, and culture in China
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Inheritance and succession -- China -- History; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- China -- History; Right of property -- China -- History
Description: "Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.

The consolidation in law of patrilineal succession in the Ming and Qing dynasties curtailed women's claims, but the adoption of the Civil Code and the gradual dismantling of patrilineal succession in the twentieth century greatly strengthened women's rights to inherit property."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-214) and index.