Description |
1 online resource (ix, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
A young woman as portable property -- The flow of trafficking in the late Qing -- New laws and emerging language -- Fictive families and children in the marketplace -- Moving beyond the reach of the law -- The warlord's widow and the chief of police -- Domestic bonds -- Talking with traffickers. |
Summary |
Sold People considers human trafficking in China not as a symptom of social problems like poverty or famine, but as a widespread practice and imbedded process extending far beyond times of crisis into the very heart of family life. It follows the lives of sold people and their traffickers closely, demonstrating how the trade in people was shaped, encouraged, and even enabled by Chinese family structure. In 1910, the Qing government promulgated legislation to abolish slavery and prohibit trafficking. Reformers hoped that this would help usher China into an international community of modern nations. On the ground, the country's new police found these laws almost impossible to enforce. Urbanization, commercialization, industrialization, the development of modern transportation systems, and the fractious militarization that followed China's 1911 revolution created a perfect environment for entrepreneurial brokers to meet old needs with new criminal strategies. The dynasty's Republican successors struggled to eliminate the deeply entrenched and yet malleable trade in people.-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Human trafficking -- China -- History.
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Human trafficking. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Families -- China -- History.
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Families. |
Indexed Term |
Families |
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Human trafficking |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Title |
Traffickers and family life in North China |
Other Form: |
Print version: Ransmeier, Johanna S. Sold people. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017 9780674971974 0674971973 (DLC) 2016038100 (OCoLC)957339687 |
ISBN |
9780674977211 (electronic book) |
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0674977211 (electronic book) |
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9780674971974 (cloth) |
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0674971973 (cloth) |
Standard No. |
40026973638 |
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10.4159/9780674977211 |
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