| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China |
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Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.
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| Contents |
The case of Feng v. Zhang : marriage reform in a revolutionary region -- The appeal : women, love, marriage, and the revolutionary state -- The new adjudication : judicial construction in marriage reform -- A new principle in the making : from "freedom" to "self-determination" of marriage through legal practice -- Newspaper reports : casting a new democracy in village communities -- The Qin opera and the ballad : from rebellious daughters to social mothers -- The Ping opera and film : nationalizing the new marriage practice and politicizing the state-family, 1949-1960 |
| Summary |
"[The author] examines the social and cultural significance of Chinese revolutionary legal practice in the construction of marriage and gender relations. Her book is an empirically rich investigation of the ways in which a 1943 legal dispute over an arranged marriage in a Chinese village became a legal, political and cultural exemplar on the national stage. This ... study revisits the Chinese Revolution and its impact on women and society by presenting a Chinese experience that cannot and should not be theorized in the framework of Western discourse. Taking a cultural historical perspective, Cong shows how the Chinese Revolution and its legal practices produced new discourses, neologisms and cultural symbols that contained China's experience in twentieth-century social movements, and how revolutionary practice was sublimated into the concept of 'self-determination', an idea that bridged local experiences with the tendency of the twentieth-century world, and that is a revolutionary legacy for China today."-- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-316) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Domestic relations -- China -- History
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Marriage law -- China -- History
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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Domestic relations
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Marriage law
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Politics and government
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Eherecht
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024173
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China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024171
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| Subject |
China
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316563021 |
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1316563022 |
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9781316726334 |
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1316726339 |
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