Marriage and the law in the age of Khubilai Khan : cases from the Yuan dianzhang
- Responsibility
- Bettine Birge.
- Language
- English. Text in English, with some text in English translated from the Chinese.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Copyright notice
- ©2017
- Physical description
- vii, 324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Birge, Bettine, author, translator.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index.
- Contents
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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.
- Summary
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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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) - Included Work
- Container of: Birge, Bettine. Age of Khubilai Khan and the Yuan dianzhang.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2017
- Copyright date
- 2017
- Related Work
- Container of (expression): Yuan dian zhang. 18. English.
- ISBN
- 9780674975514 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
- 0674975510 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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