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The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace
dc.contributor.author | McMahon, Keith | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-04T17:24:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-01T12:00:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Keith McMahon (2013). The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace. The Journal of Asian Studies, 72, pp 917-936. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001137 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12502 | |
dc.description | Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013. This is the published version of the article, made available with the permission of the publisher. The original published version can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911813001137 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study examines Chinese imperial polygamy under two aspects, as institution and actual practice. Institution refers to its existence as a set of rules and expectations, practice to the actual ways in which imperial people carried out polygamy as recorded in both historical and fictional sources. The key to the institutionalization of polygamy had to do with the idea that a ruler did not engage in polygamy because he wanted to, but because he had to in order to fulfill his role as Son of Heaven. He was obligated to extend the patriline and was as if following a hallowed directive. Practice had to do with what rules and expectations could not control or predict, including how a man justified his role as polygamist, his polygamous transgressions, and how he dealt with the main challenge to polygamous harmony, women’s jealousy and rivalry. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
dc.title | The Institution of Polygamy in the Chinese Imperial Palace | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | McMahon, Keith | |
kusw.kudepartment | East Asian Languages & Cultures | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.embargo.terms | Per the author's agreement with the publisher, this article will be available for download in December, 2014. | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0021911813001137 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |