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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 528–549.
Published: 01 August 2000
... the general understanding that wealth, power, territory, monogamy, gender equity, cleanliness, dress, etiquette, or mechanization constituted the notion of siwilai . The meaning was slippery, no matter how anybody tried to claim or use it politically (Bhidayalongkorn 1970). Copyright © The Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1197–1198.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Ming to the late Qing. Chapter 1 introduces sublime passion and the remarkable woman through Pu Songling's late seventeenth-century Liaozhai zhiyi (Chronicles of the Strange from the Liaozhai). Chapter 2 further explores sublime passion and monogamy through the mid-eighteenth-century Hong lou meng...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1036–1038.
Published: 01 August 2009
... to modernity based on what were posited as Buddhist traditions of polygyny. Loos also demonstrates how the creation of “native courts” for the application of Islamic family law in the south served the colonial practice of “preserving tradition.” The polygyny debate itself pitted ideas of monogamy as a modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 691–692.
Published: 01 August 1988
... culminated in the formation of a small breakaway "Toda Christian" community. This society, as is well known, features the institution of polyandry, but it also permits polygyny, wife-lending, and marriage by capture. Although these institutions were still prevalent in Rivers's day (alongside monogamy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (3): 689–691.
Published: 01 August 1988
... culminated in the formation of a small breakaway "Toda Christian" community. This society, as is well known, features the institution of polyandry, but it also permits polygyny, wife-lending, and marriage by capture. Although these institutions were still prevalent in Rivers's day (alongside monogamy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1956) 16 (1): 103–107.
Published: 01 November 1956
... that the doctrine of monogamy for Chinese residents in Hong Kong be recommended?" a member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce answered: "Yes, but custom of a second 'kit fat' for Kim Tiu purposes must be carefully considered."4 These examples from Hong Kong show clearly that Mr. Shiga is fully justified...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 299.
Published: 01 February 1959
... of churches was limited, but religious freedom grew even when local custom technically violated general laws, such as monogamy. Freedom found instrumentation through public education and health programs, participation in civil service and selfgovernment. Only a stable economy was never achieved, because...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1278–1280.
Published: 01 November 2009
... describes social practices that affect fertility. These include polyandry in some regions, monogamy in others, comparatively late commencement of childbearing, religious celibacy, and nonmarriage for a large segment of the population. The comparisons reveal considerable local sociocultural and demographic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (2): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 2006
... in the dominant codes of monogamy among immigrant Chinese-Thai in the U.S. This does not seem to directly result in any greater gender equality in the life of wives, however. 393 394 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S This book s value in terms of provocation or pushing of the boundaries...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 793–794.
Published: 01 August 1997
.... Third, the bourgeois ideal of conjugal monogamy among other alien values propagated by the new imperial "couple" enhanced the basic human rights of Japanese women at that time. We are on tricky normative ground when we argue about how the emperor system "modernized" or "Westernized" traditional...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 543–544.
Published: 01 May 2004
..., abolished polygamy and instituted monogamy, required that all marriages be registered, and unprecedentedly promoted female education alongside that of men. These institutional changes, however, Barme´ argues, bene ted women from the middle and upper classes, not poor women. Patriarchal ideologies persisted...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 876–877.
Published: 01 November 1990
..., or both. This is accomplished either through endowment of the bride at the time of marriage or through rules of inheritance that give shares to both sons and daughters, or both. It is associated with tendencies toward monogamy (often supplemented with concubinage), class isogamy, discouragement of widow...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 May 1968
... of the bow and arrow, the harpoon, the use of a simple earth oven, use of wooden and basketry vessels for food, use of pottery, use of a throwing stick, monogamy, and "the custom of burying the dead in caves still occupied by the living." All these were present in "the paleolithic era" and are taken to show...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 298–299.
Published: 01 February 1959
... still not independent, Filipinos enjoyed immediate exercise of rights long withheld both by colonial Spain and, earlier, by their own family and tribal heads. Temporal power of churches was limited, but religious freedom grew even when local custom technically violated general laws, such as monogamy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (2): 344–345.
Published: 01 February 1965
... that will induce neither misquotation nor misuse, twin plagues of Indian temple art books. This companion, or guide, to the literature from Mohenjo Daro to 1961 extremes of 5000 years displays statements on marriage arrangements, bridal dress and attendants, sacramental rites, feasts, consummation, monogamy, free...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1965) 24 (2): 345–346.
Published: 01 February 1965
... to 1961 extremes of 5000 years displays statements on marriage arrangements, bridal dress and attendants, sacramental rites, feasts, consummation, monogamy, free love and dancers, illegitimacy, and prostitution. Earliest customs (p. 54) "when marriage was not sacramental and women had practically...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 987–989.
Published: 01 November 1996
... (through the Warring States period). Among the issues discussed in this chapter are sex war slaves, the origins of prostitution, the rise of the practice of monogamy, the embryonic emergence of "arts of the bed-chamber," and rulers' promiscuous activities. Chapter 4 covers the period from the Qin-Han down...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 917–936.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., from whom the Mughals were descended. Where there was Christianity, on the other hand, there was monogamy, thus Europe and Byzantium (Duggan 1997 ; Garland 1999 ; Herrin 2001 ). Monogamy was the exception rather than the rule. But even in Christian realms, male rulers had mistresses. Although...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 894–896.
Published: 01 August 2001
.... Similarly, multiple marriages that were not uncommon in the early Choson gave way to monogamy, and soja offspring of secondary wives were excluded from elite status. On the subject of adoption, the author finds that Korean women played a greater role not only as wives and mothers, but also as adoptees...
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