Sold People : Traffickers and Family Life in North China /
Ransmeier, Johanna S.
Sold People : Traffickers and Family Life in North China / Johanna S. Ransmeier. - 1 online resource (408 p.) : 15 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. A Young Woman as Portable Property -- 2. The Flow of Trafficking in the Late Qing -- 3. New Laws and Emerging Language -- 4. Fictive Families and Children in the Marketplace -- 5. Moving beyond the Reach of the Law -- 6. The Warlord's Widow and the Chief of Police -- 7. Domestic Bonds -- 8. Talking with Traffickers -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chinese Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674971974 9780674977211
10.4159/9780674977211 doi
Families--History.--China
Human trafficking--History.--China
HISTORY / Asia / China.
HQ281 / .R26 2017eb
306.850951
Sold People : Traffickers and Family Life in North China / Johanna S. Ransmeier. - 1 online resource (408 p.) : 15 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tables
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. A Young Woman as Portable Property -- 2. The Flow of Trafficking in the Late Qing -- 3. New Laws and Emerging Language -- 4. Fictive Families and Children in the Marketplace -- 5. Moving beyond the Reach of the Law -- 6. The Warlord's Widow and the Chief of Police -- 7. Domestic Bonds -- 8. Talking with Traffickers -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chinese Terms -- Acknowledgments -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674971974 9780674977211
10.4159/9780674977211 doi
Families--History.--China
Human trafficking--History.--China
HISTORY / Asia / China.
HQ281 / .R26 2017eb
306.850951