Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan
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Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan

Cases from the Yuan dianzhang

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Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan

Cases from the Yuan dianzhang

About this book

The Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century and Khubilai Khan's founding of the Yuan dynasty brought together under one government people of different languages, religions, and social customs. Chinese law evolved rapidly to accommodate these changes, as reflected in the great compendium Yuan dianzhang (Statutes and Precedents of the Yuan Dynasty). The records of legal cases contained in this seminal text, Bettine Birge shows, paint a portrait of medieval Chinese family lifeā€”and the conflicts that arose from itā€”that is unmatched by any other historical source.

Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan reveals the complex, sometimes contradictory inner workings of the Mongol-Yuan legal system, seen through the prism of marriage disputes in chapter eighteen of the Yuan dianzhang, which has never before been translated into another language. Birge's meticulously annotated translation clarifies the meaning of terms and passages, some in a hybrid Sino-Mongolian language, for specialists and general readers alike. The text includes court testimonyā€”recorded in the vivid vernacular of people from all social classesā€”in lawsuits over adultery, divorce, rape, wife-selling, marriages of runaway slaves, and other conflicts. It brings us closer than any other source to the actual Mongolian speech of Khubilai and the great khans who succeeded him as they struggled to reconcile very different Mongol, Muslim, and Chinese legal traditions and confront the challenges of ruling a diverse polyethnic empire.

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Information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780674975514
eBook ISBN
9780674978164
Topic
History
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Maps, Figures, and Charts
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I. The Age of Khubilai Khan and the Yuan dianzhang
  10. Part II. Chapter 18, ā€œMarriage,ā€ from the Yuan dianzhang: An Annotated Translation
  11. Appendix A: Translation of Title Page of the Yuan dianzhang
  12. Appendix B: Marriage Cases from Chapter 18 of the Yuan dianzhang in Chronological Order
  13. Appendix C: Marriage Cases from Chapter 18 of the Yuan dianzhang with Dates
  14. Bibliography
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index