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Sold People : Traffickers and Family Life in North China / Johanna S. Ransmeier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) : 15 halftones, 3 maps, 4 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674971974
  • 9780674977211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.850951 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ281 .R26 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)