Getting an Heir Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China
The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early...
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University of Hawai'i Press
1990
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