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100 1 $aBirge, Bettine.
245 10 $aWomen, property, and Confucian reaction in Sung and Yuan China (960-1368) /$cBettine Birge.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2002.
300 $axxi, 345 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aCambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index.
505 0 $a1. Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity -- Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals -- Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property -- Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts -- T'ang Inheritance and Property Law -- 2. Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times -- Sung Law and the Legal System -- Transmission of Wealth to Women -- Daughters and Sons in Family Divison -- Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors -- Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers -- New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households -- Intervention of the State -- Daughters and Posthumous Heirs -- Women's Property within Marriage -- Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death -- Remarriage and the Law -- Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive -- Divorce -- Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs -- Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law -- 3. Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung -- Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance -- Opposition to Private Property within Marriage -- Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation -- Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship -- The Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung -- Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars -- Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers -- Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household -- Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers -- Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals -- 4. Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan -- Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society -- Law in the Yuan Dynasty -- Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance -- Inheritance in Cut-off Households -- Women's Separate Property in Marriage -- Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan -- Stage 1. Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271 -- Stage 2. Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276 -- Stage 3. Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294 -- Stage 4. The Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320 -- Stage 5. The Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan -- Post-Yuan Developments -- Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals.
650 0 $aWomen$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aChina$xSocial conditions$y960-1644.
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