Polyandry And Wife-Selling In Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies And Judicial Interventions

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 adjudication of routine cases in the local courts.

• | Author: Matthew H. Sommer
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 499 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0520287037
• | ISBN-13: 9780520287037