Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and y an China (960 1368) Book

	List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
	Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
	Abbreviations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Women and Property before the Sung: Evolution and Continuity	41
	Chou Feudalism and Confucian Ideals	42
	Han Dynasty Developments: Communal Living, Common Property	46
	Dowry versus Betrothal Gifts	51
	T'ang Inheritance and Property Law	53
2	Women and Property in the Sung: Legal Innovation in Changing Times	64
	Sung Law and the Legal System	66
	Transmission of Wealth to Women	76
	Daughters and Sons in Family Divison	76
	Daughters' Inheritance by Testament and Legal Protection of the Property of Minors	94
	Inheritance by Daughters without Surviving Brothers	97
	New Provisions for Daughters in Cut-off Households	98
	Intervention of the State	104
	Daughters and Posthumous Heirs	109
	Women's Property within Marriage	113
	Taking Property out of a Marriage after the Husband's Death	115
	Remarriage and the Law	125
	Separate Property within Marriage While the Husband Was Alive	127
	Divorce	130
	Disposition of Dowry When a Wife Died without Heirs	134
	Conclusion: Property, Gender, and the Law	138
3	Women's Property and Confucian Reaction in the Sung	143
	Patrilineality and Daughters' Inheritance	144
	Opposition to Private Property within Marriage	150
	Chu Hsi's Encouragement of Dowry Donation	151
	Dowry Donation and the Learning of the Way Fellowship	153
	The Growing Concern over Dowry during the Sung	161
	Learning of the Way Ideals and Women as Household Bursars	169
	Northern Sung Discourse on Women as Household Managers	169
	Chu Hsi and Women's Roles in the Household	174
	Chu Hsi's Contemporaries and Followers	179
	Huang Kan's Enforcement of Learning of the Way Ideals	185
4	Transformation of Marriage and Property Law in the Yuan	200
	Marriage and the Levirate in Mongol and Chinese Society	201
	Law in the Yuan Dynasty	208
	Family Property and Daughters' Inheritance	217
	Inheritance in Cut-off Households	220
	Women's Separate Property in Marriage	228
	Changing Laws on Marriage and Property in the Yuan	229
Stage 1	Separation of Mongol and Chinese Law, 1260 to the End of 1271	230
Stage 2	Mongolization of the Law and Universal Application of the Levirate, 1271-1276	238
Stage 3	Reassertion of Chinese Values and Lenient Enforcement of the Levirate, 1276-1294	245
Stage 4	The Confucian Transformation of Marriage and Property Law, 1294-1320	253
Stage 5	The Exaltation of Chastity in the Late Yuan	273
	Post-Yuan Developments	277
	Conclusion: Gender, Mongols, and Confucian Ideals	283
	Bibliography	297
	Glossary-Index	329