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.
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.
Women in the Medieval Court
Women in the Medieval 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 Women in the Medieval Court write by Rebecca Holdorph. This book was released on 2022-04-06. Women in the Medieval Court available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising look at women who wielded power in medieval Europe, from queens to concubines to abbesses. Medieval society might expect the elite women who decorated its courts to play the role of Queen Guinevere, but many of these women had very different ideas. Great queens, who sometimes ruled in their own right, fought wars and forged empires. Noblewomen acted behind the scenes to change the course of politics. Far from cloistered off from the world, powerful abbesses played the role of kingmaker. And concubines had a role to play as well, both as political actors and as mothers of children who might change a country’s destiny. They experienced tremendous success and dramatic downfalls. This book tells the stories of women from across medieval Europe, from a Danish queen who waged political war to form a Scandinavian empire to a Tuscan countess who joined her troops on the battlefield. Whether they wielded power in battle, from a convent, or from a throne—or even in the bedchamber—these women were far from damsels in distress waiting for their knights in shining armor.
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity - 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 Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity write by Beverely Bossler. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups—and of male discourses about them—transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture had a profound effect on Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage, and as entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and by the new markets—in women—that it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced recognition of concubine mothers in ritual and expressed increasing concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from inception, the drive to celebrate female loyalty was rooted in a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women—and men’s relationships with women—seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
China's Courts and Concubines
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.
