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Author:   Xiaoping Cong (University of Houston)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781316602614

ISBN 10:   1316602613
Pages:   345
Publication Date:   01 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Locality, Marriage Practice and Women: 1. The case of Feng v. Zhang: marriage reform in a revolutionary region; 2. The appeal: women, love, marriage, and the revolutionary state; Part II. Legal Practice and New Principle: 3. The new adjudication: the judicial construction in marriage reform; 4. A new principle in the making: from 'freedom' to 'self-determination' of marriage through legal practice; Part III. Politics and Gender in Construction: 5. Newspaper reports: casting a new democracy in village communities; 6. The Qin opera and the ballad: from rebellious daughters to social mothers; 7. The Ping opera and movie: nationalizing the new marriage practice and politicizing the state-family, 1949–1960; Epilogue: 'Liu Qiao'er', law, and zi-zhu: beyond 1960; Bibliography; Index.

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'Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Cong's book presents a detailed investigation of the development of the Communist judicial system in the BR as well as a close examination of the social and cultural implications of Chinese revolutionary legal practice for women and gender relations ... Deftly moving between legal history and cultural history, and deploying interdisciplinary approaches to tacking historical puzzles, Xiaoping Cong has made a significant contribution to the history of the Chinese Communist Revolution.' The American Historical Review 'Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Cong's book presents a detailed investigation of the development of the Communist judicial system in the BR as well as a close examination of the social and cultural implications of Chinese revolutionary legal practice for women and gender relations ... Deftly moving between legal history and cultural history, and deploying interdisciplinary approaches to tacking historical puzzles, Xiaoping Cong has made a significant contribution to the history of the Chinese Communist Revolution.' The American Historical Review

'Empirically rich and conceptually innovative, Cong's book presents a detailed investigation of the development of the Communist judicial system in the BR as well as a close examination of the social and cultural implications of Chinese revolutionary legal practice for women and gender relations ... Deftly moving between legal history and cultural history, and deploying interdisciplinary approaches to tacking historical puzzles, Xiaoping Cong has made a significant contribution to the history of the Chinese Communist Revolution.' The American Historical Review

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Xiaoping Cong is a scholar of late imperial and twentieth-century China. Her previous book, Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897–1937 (2007), was awarded a prize from the Chinese Historians in the United States society (CHUS) in 2008. Professor Cong has published a number of refereed journal articles and book chapters in both English and Chinese in the United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and the Netherlands. She has also received several prestigious research grants, from Fulbright (2008–9), ACLS (2008–9) and AHA (2006). She was the President of the CHUS from 2011 to 2013, and is currently the secretary-treasurer (2014–16) of the Historical Society of Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC).

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