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 | |