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Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China

Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China


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This groundbreaking book analyzes marriage and family reform in twentieth-century China. Lisa Tran’s examination of changes in the perception of concubinage explores the subtle, yet very meaningful, shifts in the construction of monogamy in contemporary China. Equally important is her use of court cases to assess how these shifts affected legal and social practice. Tran argues that this dramatic story has often been overlooked, leading to the mistaken conclusion that concubinage remained largely unchanged or quietly disappeared in “modern” China. Customarily viewed as a minor wife because her “husband” was already married, a concubine found her legal status in question under a political order that came to be based on the principles of monogamy and equality. Yet although the custom of concubinage came under attack in the early twentieth century, the image of the concubine stirred public sympathy. How did lawmakers attack the practice without jeopardizing the interests of concubines? Conversely, how did jurists protect the interests of women without appearing to sanction concubinage? How law and society negotiated these conflicting interests dramatically altered existing views of monogamy and marriage and restructured gender and family relations. As the first in-depth study of the meaning and practice of monogamy and concubinage in modern China, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and legal norms. In addition, by crossing the “1949 divide,” it compares the Guomindang’s designation of concubinage as adultery with the Chinese Communist Party’s treatment of it as bigamy, and draws out the legal implications for the practice of concubinage as well as for women who were concubines. Poised at the intersection of Chinese history, women’s history, and legal history, this book makes a unique and significant contribution to the scholarship in all three fields.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Chapter One:Concubinage as Legal and Social History Chapter Two:Concubinage under Early Republican Law Chapter Three:Concubinage under GMD Law Chapter Four: The Benefits of Household Membership under Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Five:Severance and Support under Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Six:The Line between Marriage and Concubinage in Early Republican and GMD Law Chapter Seven:The Unintended Recognition of Concubinage as Bigamy under GMD Law Chapter Eight:Concubinage under CCP Law Chapter Nine:The Handling of Concubinage Cases under CCP Law Chapter Ten:Conclusion Character List References Index

About the Author :
Lisa Tran is associate professor of modern Chinese history at California State University, Fullerton.

Review :
Concubinage has a long and intricate history in China, where it was a deeply entrenched part of the institution of marriage. How did it make the transition into post-dynastic China? Lisa Tran tackles this issue in a thorough and masterful way, taking the reader through the complex dismantling of concubinage in the pre- and post-communist eras. She attends to both legal and social/ideological aspects, drawing on an impressive array of documents and archives. Concubines in Court treats one of the most important facets of the historical transition from post-dynastic times and is a study that I have long awaited. Lisa Tran’s study of the legal treatment of concubinage during the transition from late empire to Republic and then People’s Republic will be required reading for anyone interested in gender, family, and law in modern China. Polygyny had been standard practice and an important status symbol under the Qing dynasty, but new ideals of monogamy and gender equality in the twentieth century induced reformers to redefine concubinage first as adultery and then as bigamy. Based on careful exegesis of cases from legal archives, Tran shows how concubines took advantage of their changing status to secure new rights in court. She also shows how Republican-era debates about concubinage strangely anticipated the controversy over wealthy men’s pursuit of sexual privilege in China today.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781442245907
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Sub Title: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China
  • ISBN-10: 1442245905
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm


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