Search Results: the family in classical china by hp wilkinson

Ch'eng Wen Publishing Company, 1974 (1926). Reprint. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Previous owner's sticker to inside front cover, penned name to front endpaper, a little rubbing to gilt title on spine, otherwise good condition (no markings to text). 239pp. .

Shanghai 1926, Kelly & Walsh. Green lacquered cloth, very good, 239p., errata, index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. SCARCE A very unusual resource, covers folk customs, laws, tradit- ional practice &c. With chapter headings: definition of mar- riage, familylife in the legendary & heroic age, land tenure & tillage, social orgins, mother-right, infanticide, infant- icide 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. .

Shanghai.: Kelly & Walsh Shanghai 1926. 1926.. 239pp, index, folding chart, gilt title spine and upper cover, blue cloth boards little worn at extremities, some light foxing a little heavier on endpapers, good copy. Discusses family related topics, with chapters on marriage including a chapter on marriage by capture (which the author concludes does not exist in China), family life, land tenure and tillage, social origins, mother-right, infanticide, names and their avoidance, Chinese family nomenclature and exogamy. .