Getting an Heir

The need for heirs in any traditional society is a compelling one. In traditional China, where inheritance and notions of filiality depended on the production of progeny, the need was nearly absolute. As Ann Waltner makes clear in this broadly researched study of adoption in the late Ming and early...

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Main Author:	Waltner, Ann
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	University of Hawai'i Press 2023
Subjects:	History Anthropology Sociology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
Online Access:	ONIX_20231005_9780824879952_208
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