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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 746–750.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Graham Sanders The Romance of a Literatus and His Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China . Translated and annotated by Jun Fang and Lifang He . Hong Kong : Proverse Hong Kong , 2019 . 224 pp. ISBN: 9789888491629 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 427–458.
Published: 01 May 1994
.... Beijing : Zhongguo jianzhu gongye chubanshe . A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's Court: The Meanings of the Fragrant Concubine JAMES A. MILLWARD I N TOKYO'S FASHIONABLE ROPPONGI CROSSING, just down the street from the Almond Cafe where urbanites converge to meet their dates, a sign over a Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 589–591.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Gail Hershatter Concubines and Bondservants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom . By Maria Jaschok . London : Zed Books Ltd. , 1988 . ii , 156 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 319–321.
Published: 01 February 2010
... of concubines. Where women were either wives of zamindars, mothers of legitimate heirs, or concubines whose offspring were denied property rights, the success of a female litigant in court could mean the simultaneous exclusion of other women from the status of wife: “Thus, women seeking property and political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 822–823.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Elizabeth LaCouture Concubines in Court: Marriage and Monogamy in Twentieth-Century China . By Lisa Tran . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2015 . viii, 235 pp. ISBN: 9781442245891 (cloth; also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 1. “Gate of plentiful offspring,” quarters of imperial concubines, Forbidden City, Beijing (photo by author).
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (2): 443–453.
Published: 01 February 1975
... to demand Wu's surrender, holding his father, the retired commander Wu Hsiang, as hostage. Wu considered complying with the demand but changed his mind upon learning that his favorite concubine, Ch'en Yüan-yüan, had also been seized. Outraged, he surrendered to the Manchus and invited them to suppress...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 457–463.
Published: 01 August 1962
..., imperial concubines, writers, hermits, virtuous wives, and filial sons. In the History of the Ming Dynasty , that portion which is biographical in nature runs to 197 out of a total of 332 chapters–in actual pages about sixty percent of the whole. We encounter the same phenomenon outside of the “standard...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 917–936.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Figure 1. “Gate of plentiful offspring,” quarters of imperial concubines, Forbidden City, Beijing (photo by author). ...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1952) 12 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 November 1952
... of illegitimate descendants" (pp. 173-204). The custom of discriminating against descendants born of concubines stemmed from the Sosol kumgo pop IfS^^ffl^. a law which was introduced in 1415, in the reign of T'aejong, the third king of the Yi dynasty and the fifth son of T'aejo. As a result of this law all...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1944) 3 (3): 211–221.
Published: 01 May 1944
... late, after having entered his house, that he had three other wives, and that she was merely the fourth concubine. The plaintiff then only blamed herself for her own fault and hoped that the preordained ill-fate would thus be wom off. But Yang's licentious desires were never satisfied and he went...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 401–403.
Published: 01 May 2024
... how that experience fed into the child's desire to become a doctor who would serve women. See vividly portrays the world of women in an elite household; she shows us the camaraderie among the women but also the tensions and the clear distinctions in status among them. A concubine was never allowed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 November 1956
... these provisions of the Code with the Statute Law of Western nations. To take one example, it is well known that even under the Empire the Chinese Government jealously guarded the status of the legitimate wife against encroachments by concubines, and recognized that a man could have only one legitimate wife...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 395–396.
Published: 01 May 1992
... in that more than one primary wife was possible, in addition to a hierarchy of secondary wives and concubines. John Chaffee takes up a different side of imperial marriage for the Song: the state-regulated marriages of women of the imperial clan with outsiders. These matches highlight the tensions of hypogamy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 29–51.
Published: 01 February 2011
...), Zhang uses a term that is taken explicitly from traditional China to describe women: “the way of concubines” ( qiefu zhi dao 妾妇之道). The “way of concubines,” according to Zhang, is “grudging, pretentious, deceptive, narrow-minded and near-sighted, and bewitching like foxes” ( humeizi 狐媚子) ( 1944c , 4...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (2): 618–621.
Published: 01 May 2003
... will have his or her own list. Here are a few of the things I wanted to know more about when I began reading Keene's biography: What was Meiji like as a child and as a man? What did he think about his parents, his wife, his concubines and the many children they bore, and the officials, Japanese and Western...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (2): 229–243.
Published: 01 February 1965
... and Man-Ch'ing shih-sanch'ao kung-wei mi-shih , comp. Yen-pei lao-jen (Taipei, 1956 ed.), P. 5. 48 Intercourse with a father's concubine constituted incest, and in the Ch'ing, as in the T'ang, Sung, and Ming, was punishable by death. See Ch'ü T'ung-tsu, Law and Society in Traditional China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2005) 64 (3): 758–760.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of concubines built modern Korea. Although somewhat exaggerated, this sentence which sounds more like a slur than a historian s observation captures B O O K R E V I E W S K O R E A 759 the main argument in Kyung Moon Hwang s important new book, Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1945) 4 (3): 263–273.
Published: 01 May 1945
... be mentioned in the book.12 A child born of a concubine is in principle illegitimate. In practice, however, the Civil Code itself has so many exceptions to the principle that in most cases a concubine's child has the status of a legitimate child13 and its name has therefore to be entered into the family book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (1): 176–177.
Published: 01 February 2020
... categories and is divided into three parts focusing on elite women's charity, especially among relatives of political officials, in the 1890s to 1910s; the YWCA's engagement with local women in the 1920s and 1930s; and, in the same period, the Daoyuan's Red Swastika Society. While the YWCA banned concubines...
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