Intolerable cruelty: marriage, law, and society in early twentieth-century China

List of tables

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Law and the state

Introduction

GMD legal exceptionalism : conceptual underpinnings of the republican civil code

The rise of public opinion : the case of GMD surname legislation

The process of civil adjudication : marital justice and the republican civil court system

Law and society

Spousal abuse : divorce litigation and the emergence of rights consciousness

Running away : cohabitation litigation and the reconfiguration of husband patriarchy

Bourgeois affairs : separation and support litigation and injury to reputation

Natural eunuchs : husband impotence annulment litigation and legal opportunism

Conclusion

References

Glossary

Index

About the author.