Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China

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  • Author : Hsieh Bao Hua
  • Release Date : 2014-06-18
  • Publisher : Lexington Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 397
  • ISBN 13 : 0739145169
  • File Size : 10,10 MB
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Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China by Hsieh Bao Hua PDF Summary

Book Description: In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individualconcubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their “positional powers” and “privilege of the inferiors” in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period. For a list of the book's tables and their sources, please see: http://www.wou.edu/wp/hsiehb/

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