Съдържание:
  • 1.
  • Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity
  • Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals
  • Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property
  • Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts
  • T'ang Inheritance and Property Law
  • 2.
  • Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times
  • Sung Law and the Legal System
  • Transmission of Wealth to Women
  • Daughters and Sons in Family Division
  • Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors
  • Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers
  • New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households
  • Intervention of the State
  • Daughters and Posthumous Heirs
  • Women's Property within Marriage
  • Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death
  • Remarriage and the Law
  • Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive
  • Divorce
  • Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs
  • Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law
  • 3.
  • Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung
  • Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance
  • Opposition to Private Property within Marriage
  • Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation
  • Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship
  • Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung
  • Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars
  • Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers
  • Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household
  • Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers
  • Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals
  • 4.
  • Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan
  • Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society
  • Law in the Yuan Dynasty
  • Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance
  • Inheritance in Cut-off Households
  • Women's Separate Property in Marriage
  • Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan
  • Stage 1.
  • Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271
  • Stage 2.
  • Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276
  • Stage 3.
  • Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294
  • Stage 4.
  • Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320
  • Stage 5.
  • Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan
  • Post-Yuan Developments.
  • Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals.