Sold People - Traffickers and Family Life in North China

Informationen zum Autor Johanna S. Ransmeier is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago. Klappentext Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart. Zusammenfassung Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants! slaves! concubines! or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna S. Ransmeier
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2017
• EAN: 9780674971974
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97197-4
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General