Women and Property in China, 960-1949

Women and Property in China, 960-1949
Author: Kathryn Bernhardt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804735278


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Drawing on newly available archival case records, this book demonstrates that Chinese women's rights to property changed substantially from the Song through the Qing dynasties, and even more dramatically under the Republican Civil Code of 1929-30.