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Wilkinson, H.P.

The Family in Classical China

Shanghai 1926,. Kelly & Walsh,

190.00 €

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(Roma, Italy)

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Author
Wilkinson, H.P.
Publishers
Shanghai 1926,. Kelly & Walsh
Keyword
CINA China Chine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

first and only edition 8vo Green lacquered cloth, very good, 239p., errata, index. SCARCE A very unusual resource, covers folk customs, laws, tradit- ional practice &c. With chapter headings: definition of mar- riage, familylife in the legendary amd heroic age, land tenure and tillage, social origins, mother-right, infanticide, infanticide in modern China, marriage by capture, names and their avoidance, a digression as to certain "survivals," avoidance of names of the living, Chinese family nomenclature and its supposed relation to primitive group-marriage, a concurrence and a criticism. Exogamy founded on blood avoidance.