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Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930

Author Janice Stockard
Publisher Stanford University Press
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ISBN / ASIN0804720142
ISBN-139780804720144
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This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, 'delayed transfer marriage', that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely practised in the Canton Delta for at least 20 years.