Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China
Seiten
2000
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-3695-4 (ISBN)
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-3695-4 (ISBN)
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State response to sexual crime as an indicator of social and demographic change in Qing dynasty China.
Changes in the criminalization of sexual behaviour during the Qing dynasty indicate that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. Shifts in official treatment of charges of adultery, rape, sodomy, widow chastity, and prostitution represented the imperial state's efforts to cope with disturbing social and demographic changes. The aim was to defend the peasant family against a swelling underclass of single, rogue males outside the family system who were demonized as sexual threats to the wives and daughters (and the young sons) of respectable households. The testimony, gleaned from local and central court archives, of such marginalized people as peasants, laborers, and beggars shows how people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and household bonded with each other in unorthodox ways (combining sexual union with resource pooling and fictive kinship) to satisfy a range of human needs.
Changes in the criminalization of sexual behaviour during the Qing dynasty indicate that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. Shifts in official treatment of charges of adultery, rape, sodomy, widow chastity, and prostitution represented the imperial state's efforts to cope with disturbing social and demographic changes. The aim was to defend the peasant family against a swelling underclass of single, rogue males outside the family system who were demonized as sexual threats to the wives and daughters (and the young sons) of respectable households. The testimony, gleaned from local and central court archives, of such marginalized people as peasants, laborers, and beggars shows how people excluded from accepted patterns of marriage and household bonded with each other in unorthodox ways (combining sexual union with resource pooling and fictive kinship) to satisfy a range of human needs.
1. Introduction; 2. A vision of sexual order; 3. The evolution of rape law: female chastity and the threat of the outside male; 4. The problem of the penetrated male: Qing sodomy legislation and the fixing of male gender; 5. Widows in the Qing chastity cult; the nexus of sex and property in law and in women's lives; 6. Sexual behavior as status performance: the regulation of prostitution before 1723; 7. The extension of commoner standards: Yongzheng reforms and the criminalization of prostitution; 8. Conclusion; Appendices.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.5.2000 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Law, Society & Culture in China |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 735 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-3695-2 / 0804736952 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-3695-4 / 9780804736954 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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