Innocent conspirators : an inquiry into the law of wives accompanying husbands in exile in the Qing legal system

The low legal and social status of women in Qing China, especially with the concept of “Three Obediences” (obey the father as a daughter, the husband as a wife, and her sons in widowhood), is compounded by the patriarchal “benevolence” towards women in the Qing legal system, who treated them as depe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ng, Ziyang
Other Authors: Chen Song-Chuan
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66239