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Concubinage and servitude in late imperial China /

0739145142

0739198408

9780739145142

9780739198407

9780739145166

Concubinage and servitude in late imperial China /

[Book]

Hsieh Bao Hua.

Lanham :

Lexington Books,

[2014]

©2014

xxxi, 363 pages :

illustration, map ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-350) and index.

Concubines and Servants in the General Populace. The dimension of human trafficking -- The path of a concubine -- Domestic servants, office attendants, and apprentices -- Imperial Consorts and Servants. Booi Elite and Harangga -- Ming palace serving-women -- Qing serving-women and eunuchs -- Ritual canon and imperial harem -- Appendices: The Ming imperial harem ; The Qing imperial harem ; The Ming six bureaus finalized in 1395 ; Simplified plans of Ming-Qing palace and Beijing.

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"In the long course of late imperial Chinese history, servants and concubines formed a vast social stratum in the hinterland along the Grand Canal, particularly in urban areas. Concubinage and Servitude in Late Imperial China is a survey of the institutions and practice of concubinage and servitude in both the general populace and the imperial palace, with a focus on the examination of Ming-Qing political and socioeconomic history through the lives of this particular group of distinct yet associated individuals. The persistent theme of the book is how concubines, appointed by patriarchal polygamy, and servants, laboring under the master-servants hierarchy, experienced interactions and mobility within each institution and in associating with the other. While reviewing how ritual and law treated concubines and servants as patriarchal possessions, the author explores the perspectives available for individual concubines and servants and the limitations in their daily circumstances, searching for their "positional powers" and "privilege of the inferiors" in the context of Chinese culture during the Ming-Qing time period"--Page 4 of cover.

Concubinage-- China-- History.

Household employees-- China-- History.

Human trafficking-- China-- History.

Concubinage.

Household employees.

Human trafficking.

Manners and customs.

China, Social life and customs, 1644-1912.

China, Social life and customs, 960-1644.

China.

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