- 352 pages
- English
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Marriage, Kinship and Power in Northern China
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of Major Dynasties
- Map: International Boundaries of Modern China
- Chapter I: The Making of an Elite: Local Politics and Social Relations in Northeastern China during the Fifth Century AD
- Chapter II: The Economic Foundations of Virtue: Widow-Remarriage in Early and Modern China
- Chapter III: Observations on Marriage and Inheritance Practices in Early Mongol and Yüan Society, with particular reference to the Levirate
- Chapter IV: The Harem in Northern Wei Politics, 398–498 AD
- Chapter V: Marriage, Kinship and Succession under the Ch'i-tan Rulers of the Liao Dynasty (907–1125)
- Chapter VI: Family, Marriage and Political Power in Sixth-Century China: A Study of the Kao Family of Northern Ch’i, c. 520–550
- Chapter VII: Imperial Marriage in the Native Chinese and Non-Han State, Han to Ming
- Index