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• The historical and social context of the Yuan dianzhang
• Yuan administration and the legal system
• Origins, contents, and transmission of the Yuan dianzhang
• Notes on the translation
• Sections 1-2 : marriage rites and exchanges; getting married
• Sections 3-5 : marriage between officials and commoners; marriages of military personnel; divorce
• Sections 6-8 : when the husband dies; levirate marriage approved; no levirate marriage
• Sections 9-12 : secondary wives; marriage between slaves and commoners; marriage of entertainers; marriage during the mourning period.

These thirteenth-century legal cases from the classic compendium Yuan dianzhang reveal the complex, contradictory inner workings of the Mongol-Yuan legal system, as seen through the prism of divorce, adultery, rape, wife-selling, and other marital disputes. Bettine Birge offers a meticulously annotated translation and analysis.
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