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Seattle.
University of Washington Press.
1978.
viii + 553pp, bibliography, glossary, index, dustjacket. Covers lightly marked, dustjacket soiled, endpapers a trifle foxed, a sound and generally clean copy. The first section includes an examination of the standards and rules for marriage during Han times, and of divorce in traditional Chinese law. The second section, devoted to family partition procedures, discusses the nature of family property in traditional China; the results of a field investigation on ancestral sacrifice in Manchuria; and the partition of family property in villages in southern Taiwan and in Tibet. The third section, dealing only with Taiwan, examines marriage in rural areas, summarizes field research on rural to urban migration, and looks at modernization and household composition. An investigation of marriage and divorce in the People's Republic of China, and comparisons of developments in marriage law in the USSR and in the People's Republic of China are dealt with in the fourth section. In the fifth section the authors indicate some factors that influence the relationship of law and social change in India and Indonesia. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 127054)
Related Subject Areas:
China
Divorce
Family
India
Indonesia
Law
Marriage
Social Change
Taiwan
Tibet
Women
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Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical (Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historical and Comparative Perspective)
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