Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China 9780824862497
The division of household property in agricultural societies lies at the centre of the transmission of economic control
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English Pages 272 Year 1998
Table of contents :
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2 .Inheritance Law and Practice before the Qing
Chapter 3. Qing Household Division: Why, When, and How?
Chapter 4 .The Rights of Individuals in Qing Taiwan
Chapter 5. Dividing Different Types of Property in Qing Taiwan
Chapter 6 .Household Division Disputes in Qing Courts
Chapter 7. Republican Rural North China
Chapter 8. Region and Class: Exceptions, Strategies, and Orientations
Chapter 9. Household Division and Society: Land, Orientations, and Social Mobility
Chapter 10 .Conclusions and Speculations
Appendix 1. China’s Laws on Inheritance
Appendix 2. Historical Sources and Their Limits
Appendix 3 .Chinese Terms for Weights and Measures
Appendix 4: Chinese Terms for Guarantors on Household Division Documents, by Province
Appendix 5: Common Terms for Household Division Documents, by Province
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