Historical analysis of contracts used by ordinary people in medieval China for land, livestock, people, money, and even grave plots.
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Historical analysis of contracts used by ordinary people in medieval China for land, livestock, people, money, and even grave plots.
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This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, language texts, and other anecdotal evidence to describe...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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Mentions of remarriages, adoptions, and divorces shaping family contracts.
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Underworld court system where the dead sue and are sued.
Magic & witchcraft
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Draws on tales of the supernatural for historical context.
Occult / demonology
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Contracts and court proceedings involving the dead in the afterlife.
Political content
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Women's land rights amid social constriction; inflation from paper money.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Transactions involving people; slavery-like arrangements and constricted lives.
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