Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom by Maria Jaschok

Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom

Maria Jaschok

160 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

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The practice of selling young daughters was common in southern China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the practice was formally abolished in 1923, the underlying social evaluation and attitudes survive and their importance is no less today...

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