Research Catalog

Title

Marriage and inequality in Chinese society [electronic resource] / edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.

Details

Additional Authors

• Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon), 1945-
• Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
• Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)
• American Council of Learned Societies.
• Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (1988 : Pacific Grove, Calif.)

Found In

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org

Description

xvii, 385 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies on China ; 12

Uniform Title

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Subject

• Marriage > China > History
• Marriage customs and rites > China > History
• Sex role > China > History
• Equality > China > History

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic text and image data.

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.

OCLC

(dli)HEB04216

Title

Marriage and inequality in Chinese society [electronic resource] / edited by Rubie S. Watson, Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Imprint

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.

Series

Studies on China ; 12

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Added Author

Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon), 1945-

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-

Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)

American Council of Learned Societies.

Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society (1988 : Pacific Grove, Calif.)

Found In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/