China's Courts and Concubines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Courts and Concubines write by Bernard Llewellyn. This book was released on 2018-10-10. China's Courts and Concubines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people’s memories. Thus you will read of magicians and immortals; of dragons and pills of eternal life; of generals and eunuchs; of emperors and poets; of palaces and concubines. The author has made nothing up; if there are liars along the route, they were there before he came along. The study of stories and ballads from deep in a country’s past can tell a reader much about the present-day culture of a society; this is surely true with these tales from China’s history.
Concubines in Court
Concubines in Court - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concubines in Court write by Lisa Tran. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Concubines in Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
China's Courts and Concubines. Some People in Chinese History ... Illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes
China's Courts and Concubines. Some People in Chinese History ... Illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China's Courts and Concubines. Some People in Chinese History ... Illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes write by Bernard LLEWELLYN. This book was released on 1956. China's Courts and Concubines. Some People in Chinese History ... Illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law
Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law write by Lisa Tran. This book was released on 2005. Concubines Under Modern Chinese Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Celestial Women
Celestial Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celestial Women write by Keith McMahon. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Celestial Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.
