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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions

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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions - Sommer, Matthew H
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Polyandry. "Getting a husband to support a husband". Attitudes of families, communities, and women toward polyandry. The intermediate range of practice -- Wife-selling. Anatomy of a wife sale. Analysis of prices in wife sales. Negotiations between men in wife sales. Wives, natal families, and children. Four variations on a theme -- Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing law. Formal law and central court interpretation from Ming through high Qing. Absolutism versus pragmatism in central court treatment of wife sales. Flexible ...

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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions 2015, University of California Press

ISBN-13: 9780520287037

Hardcover