Papers presented at the Conference on Marriage and Inequality in Chi nese Society, held Jan. 1988, Pacific Grove, Calif.

"This volume was sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Re search Council"--P. opposite t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marriages of the ruling elite in the Spring and Autumn period / Melv in P. Thatcher -- Imperial marriage in the native Chinese and non-Han s tate : Han to Ming / Jennifer Holmgren -- Shifts in marriage finance fr om the sixth to the thirteenth century / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- The marriage of Sung imperial clanswomen / John W. Chaffee -- Ch'ing imperi al marriage and problems of rulership / Evelyn S. Rawski -- Grooming a daughter for marriage : brides and wives in the mid-Ch'ing period / Sus an Mann -- Wives, concubines, and maids : servitude and kinship in the Hong Kong region, 1900-1940 / Rubie S. Watson -- Prostitution and the m arket in early twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter.

Marriage and mobility under rural collectivism / William Lavely -- W omen, property, and law in the People's Republic of China / Jonathan K. Ocko -- Afterword : marriage and gender inequality / Rubie S. Watson.

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