Margaret Kuo: 1 book
Intolerable Cruelty
Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
At the outset of the Nanjing decade (1928–1937), a small group of Chinese legal elites worked to codify the terms that would bring the institutions of marriage and family into the modern world. Their deliberations produced the Republican Civil Code of 1929–1930, the first Chinese law code endowed...
