Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China (Variorum Collected Studies)
By: Jennifer Holmgren (author)HardbackUp to 2 WeeksUsually despatched within 2 weeks
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This volume focuses on changing marriage practices and kinship structures in a setting of interaction between the ruling elites and their Chinese subjects. The collection covers three major themes: the unique adaptability of steppe society in the face of threats to its politcal dominance; the way shifts in inheritance procedure (including rights of office) induce a radical shift in attitudes to marriage as well as change in the parameters of kinship solidarity; and the enduring importance of affinal ties (connections through the mother, wife and sister) in Chinese society.About Author
Jennifer HolmgrenContents
Contents: The making of an elite: local politics and social relations in northeastern China during the 5th century AD; The economic foundations of virtue: widow-remarriage in early and modern China; Observations on marriage and inheritance practices in early Mongol and YA1/4an society, with particular reference to the Levirate; The harem in northern Wei politics, 398-498 AD; Marriage, kinship and succession under the Ch'i-tan rulers of the Liao dynasty; Family, marriage and political power in 6th-century China: a study of the Kao family of northern Ch'i, c. 520-550; Imperial Marriage in the native Chinese and non-Han state, Han to Ming; Index.Product Details
- publication date: 30/11/1995
- ISBN13: 9780860785545
- Format: Hardback
- Number Of Pages: 352
- ID: 9780860785545
- weight: 627
- ISBN10: 0860785548
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