Concubines in Court (eBook)
244 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4590-7 (ISBN)
This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Tran's examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary China. Equally important is her use of court cases to assess how these shifts affected legal and social practice. Tran argues that this dramatic story has often been overlooked, leading to the mistaken conclusion that concubinage remained largely unchanged or quietly disappeared in ';modern' China. Customarily viewed as a minor wife because her ';husband' was already married, a concubine found her legal status in question under a political order that came to be based on the principles of monogamy and equality. Yet although the custom of concubinage came under attack in the early twentieth century, the image of the concubine stirred public sympathy. How did lawmakers attack the practice without jeopardizing the interests of concubines? Conversely, how did jurists protect the interests of women without appearing to sanction concubinage? How law and society negotiated these conflicting interests dramatically altered existing views of monogamy and marriage and restructured gender and family relations.As the first in-depth study of the meaning and practice of monogamy and concubinage in modern China, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and legal norms. In addition, by crossing the ';1949 divide,' it compares the Guomindang's designation of concubinage as adultery with the Chinese Communist Party's treatment of it as bigamy, and draws out the legal implications for the practice of concubinage as well as for women who were concubines. Poised at the intersection of Chinese history, women's history, and legal history, this book makes a unique and significant contribution to the scholarship in all three fields.
Lisa Tran is associate professor of modern Chinese history at California State University, Fullerton.
Acknowledgments Chapter One: Concubinage as Legal and Social History Chapter Two: Concubinage under Early Republican Law Chapter Three: Concubinage under GMD Law Chapter Four: The Benefits of Household Membership under Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Five: Severance and Support under Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Six: The Line between Marriage and Concubinage in Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Seven: The Unintended Recognition of Concubinage as Bigamy under GMD Law Chapter Eight: Concubinage under CCP Law Chapter Nine: The Handling of Concubinage Cases under CCP Law Chapter Ten: Conclusion Character List References Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.6.2015 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Schlagworte | Asian Studies • China Studies • women's studies |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-4590-5 / 1442245905 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-4590-7 / 9781442245907 |
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