The Family in Classical China
Rare and modern books
Wilkinson, H.P.
Shanghai 1926,. Kelly & Walsh,
The Family in Classical China
Rare and modern books
Wilkinson, H.P.
Shanghai 1926,. Kelly & Walsh,
190.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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Details
- Author
- Wilkinson, H.P.
- Publishers
- Shanghai 1926,. Kelly & Walsh
- Keyword
- CINA China Chine
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
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.
