Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China

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Book Review| November 01 1991

Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China

. By Ann Waltner.

Honolulu, Hawaii

:

University of Hawaii Press

,

1990

. vii,

226

pp. $26.00.

John R. Shepherd

California Institute of Technology

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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 927–928.

https://doi.org/10.2307/2058577

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