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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT xiii
5. MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 xiv
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. Polyandry
8. 1. “Getting a Husband to Support a Husband” 23
9. 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry 55
10. 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice 86
11. PART TWO. Wife-Selling
12. 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale 117
13. 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales 149
14. 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales 179
15. 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children 211
16. 8. Four Variations on a Theme 243
17. PART THREE. Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Law
18. 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing 277
19. 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales 308
20. 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts 341
21. Conclusion 376
22. APPENDICES 385
23. CHARACTER LIST 395
24. NOTES 415
25. REFERENCES 451
26. INDEX 469