| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
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Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-328) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity -- Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals -- Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property -- Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts -- T'ang Inheritance and Property Law -- 2. Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times -- Sung Law and the Legal System -- Transmission of Wealth to Women -- Daughters and Sons in Family Division -- Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors -- Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers -- New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households -- Intervention of the State -- Daughters and Posthumous Heirs -- Women's Property within Marriage -- Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death -- Remarriage and the Law -- Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive -- Divorce -- Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs -- Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law -- 3. Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung -- Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance -- Opposition to Private Property within Marriage -- Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation -- Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship -- Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung -- Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars -- Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers -- Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household -- Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers -- Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals -- 4. Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan -- Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society -- Law in the Yuan Dynasty -- Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance -- Inheritance in Cut-off Households -- Women's Separate Property in Marriage -- Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan -- Stage 1. Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271 -- Stage 2. Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276 -- Stage 3. Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294 -- Stage 4. Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320 -- Stage 5. Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan -- Post-Yuan Developments. Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
960-1644 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Birge, Bettine. Women, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368). Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521573734 (DLC) 00064145 (OCoLC)48932534 |
| ISBN |
051103976X (electronic book) |
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9780511039768 (electronic book) |
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0511116594 (electronic book) |
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9780511116599 (electronic book) |
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9780511511950 (electronic book) |
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0511511957 (electronic book) |
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0521573734 |
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9780521573733 |
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9780521180726 (paperback) |
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