Book
Marriage and adoption in China, 1845-1945
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Wolf, Arthur P., Huang, Chieh-shan.
Abstract
This is an in-depth study of marriage and adoption practices in nine districts of northern Taiwan between the years 1845-1945. The bulk of the data is drawn from Japanese family life and household surveys conducted during their occupation of Taiwan, and concerns the complex social forces which interacted to produce preferences for raising adopted daughters as sons' wives ('minor marriage'), arranging marriages for children ('major marriage'), or uxorilocal marriage. The study aims at showing that marriage practices were the complex reflections of a variety of demographic, economic and psychological forces that interacted in different ways at different times and places, rather than the simple reflections of uniformly-held ideals (p. 1). Comparisons are drawn between Wolf's data and data from the Chinese mainland and other parts of Taiwan.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Political Scientist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- M. A. Marcus
- Field Date
- 1958-1970
- Coverage Date
- 1845-1945
- Coverage Place
- Hai-Shan region, southwestern Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- Notes
- Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. [381]-386
- LCCN
- 78066182
- LCSH
- Taiwanese