ISBN:
9781316724538
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (348 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
Parallel Title:
Print version Cong, Xiaoping Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China
DDC:
306.80951
Keywords:
Marriage law - China - History
Abstract:
Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Locality, marriage practice, and women -- 1 The case of Feng v. Zhang -- I. From the imperial frontier to the revolutionary base: state-building in Longdong and Shaanbei in the 1930s -- Geography, history, and population of the Longdong subregion -- Political history, society, and culture of the locality -- II. Marriage reform and local society -- The 1939 regulation and marriage reform -- Social structure of the locality and the family revolution -- III. Social conflicts: the economic motive behind marriage disputes -- IV. Law and social practice: dealing with cultural and legal incompatibility -- 2 The appeal -- I. The revolutionary discourse of "freedom of marriage" -- II. Women in the local patriarchal system: love, sexuality, and marriage -- Women's living conditions in the region: a society in distress -- Women's life under patriarchy: love, sexuality, and marriage -- Resistance to the patriarchy: women running away and "being kidnapped" -- III. Local women and the revolutionary state -- The revolutionary state: mobilization of women for sacrifice -- Soldiers' wives and fiancées: women who did not want to wait -- "Freedom of marriage" in practice: fortification of the family agent -- IV. The case of Zuo Run v. Wang Yinsuo -- Conclusion -- Part II Legal practice and new principle -- 3 The new adjudication -- I. Constructing a new workable judicial system for the SGNBR: 1937-46 -- The judicial system of the SGN in transition: 1937-41 -- Formalizing the revolutionary judicial system: 1941-3 -- II. Searching for a hybridized model for the revolutionary judicial system
Abstract:
The review of judicial works in 1943: an independent or a centralized system? -- Inventing the "revolutionary tradition": a hybrid judicial system in the making, 1943-9 -- III. Legal practice: formalism or local flexibility under the revolutionary principle? -- Modernity and locality: between legal formalism and reality -- Legal practice in a locality: understanding local knowledge -- Between revolutionary principles and social circumstances: the case of Zhao Fanshen -- 4 A new principle in the making -- I. From "freedom" to "self-determination": terminology and statutes -- The dual meanings of the term "freedom" in twentieth-century China -- "Freedom as principle": the marriage regulations and law in southern revolutionary base areas, 1931-4 -- From "freedom" to "self-determination" through social practice -- II. "Self-determination": a new principle for marriage through legal practice -- Reconceptualizing and understanding rural women -- Changing legal practices (1): definitions and techniques -- Changing legal practices (2): detecting motives for divorce -- Changing legal practices (3): conditions of family abuse and "intolerable cohabitation" -- III. The marriage regulations in revision, 1944 and 1946 -- The 1944 regulation: a provisional change -- Implementation of the 1944 regulation and its deficiency -- The 1946 regulation: making law practicable -- Conclusion -- Part III Politics and gender in construction -- 5 Newspaper reports -- I. Ma Xiwu's way of judging: pacifying the local community -- The Yan'an Way or Ma's Way: an authoritarian state or New Democracy? -- Ma's Way: responding to an agitated village community -- II. Ma Xiwu's Way: improving state relations with local communities -- Ma's Way in local context: achieving a peaceful community via mediation -- Ma's Way in practice: pushing the party-state to improve its working style
Abstract:
Ma's Way in practice: the state negotiating with and reshaping the local community -- III. Ma's Way: local communities in the shaping of state discourse -- Reestablishing the order of the community -- Local autonomy and culture under the revolutionary state -- IV. Xinhua Daily: showcasing SGN democracy and a prelude to a new heroine -- 6 The Qin opera and the ballad -- I. The post-May Fourth generation of urban-bred youth in Yan'an: searching for their national roots and devotion... -- Established intellectuals versus educated youth in Yan'an -- Yuan Jing's literary career and the national form: from Liu Qiao'er to The Story of New Heroic Sons and Daughters -- II. New images of women under the revolutionary party-state -- New images of women: the rebellious daughter -- The new image of middle-aged women: a social mother -- III. A revolution that transformed the mother-daughter relationship -- The May Fourth daughters: leaving their mothers behind -- Social mother versus biological mother (1): rural mothers as others -- The social mother versus the biological mother (2): sexuality, reproduction, and class -- Feminine space in the masculine party-state: recasting the relationship between state and family -- IV. Remaking the story for the locals: Han Qixiang and the ballad "Liu Qiao's Reunion" -- Han Qixiang and the transition of local culture -- "Liu Qiao's Reunion": moving toward local taste -- 7 The Ping opera and film -- I. The changed term in the 1950 Marriage Law: departing from locality -- Tracing the contestation: returning to urban idealism -- Regularizing marriage reform -- II. The Ping opera Liu Qiao'er: the image of new women -- Adapting Liu Qiao'er to Ping opera, 1949-55 -- A new heroine in reality: Xin Fengxia's marriage -- III. From Ping opera to a film: politicizing popular culture -- A campaign for reforming the performing arts
Abstract:
Transforming popular culture: intellectuals under the new revolutionary ideology -- Politicizing popular culture -- IV. Feng Zhiqin and "Liu Qiao'er": the new models of women -- From Feng Peng'er to Feng Zhiqin: rural women in the public domain -- "Liu Qiao'er" as a model for rural women -- Epilogue -- I. The ongoing story of Liu Qiao'er: Feng Zhiqin, Yuan Jing, and Xin Fengxia -- II. The law and marriage: progress and practice beyond 1960 -- III. Zizhi discourse: from marriage to state and society -- Bibliography -- I. Archival documents -- II. Historical documents, films, and scholarly works -- Index
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