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Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

by Xiaoping Cong (university Of Houston)

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.6 x 24 x 2.4 cm

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Xiaoping Cong 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 conceptually groundbreaking 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.
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China and Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China
Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary ChinaMarriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

  • Author

    Xiaoping Cong (university Of Houston)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    August 2016

  • Weight

    727g

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 24 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107148567

  • ISBN-10

    1107148561

  • Eden Code

    4989813

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