Stock ID #168240 The Family in Classical China. H. P. WILKINSON.
The Family in Classical China.

The Family in Classical China.

Shanghai. Kelly & Walsh Shanghai 1926, 1926. Stock ID #168240

239pp, index, folding chart, gilt title spine and upper cover, blue cloth boards little worn at extremities, some light foxing a little heavier on endpapers, good copy.

Discusses family related topics, with chapters on marriage including a chapter on marriage by capture (which the author concludes does not exist in China), family life, land tenure and tillage, social origins, mother-right, infanticide, names and their avoidance, Chinese family nomenclature and exogamy.

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