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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
Matthew H. Sommer
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| #216501 in Books | imusti | 2015-09-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.60 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 499 pages | University of California Press||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Great social history|By E. N. Anderson|This major work opens up a whole world of illegal and semi-legal practices in Qing China: wife-selling, polyandry, prostitution, and various intermediate situations. Dr. Sommer shows that a combination of desperate poverty and a very skewed sex ratio (due to selective infanticide or neglect) led to many arrangements to share women or to m||
"Sommer’s exhaustive analysis of legal cases involving illegal marriage practices is the first systematic attempt to document their prevalence and grapple with their implications for our understanding of gender order and state-society relations in t
This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a...
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