Sold People

Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, Modern, 20th Century
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Author: Johanna S. Ransmeier ISBN: 9780674977198
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: March 20, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Johanna S. Ransmeier
ISBN: 9780674977198
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: March 20, 2017
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

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Trade in human lives thrived in North China during the Qing and Republican periods. Families at all social levels participated in buying servants, slaves, concubines, or children and disposing of unwanted household members. Johanna Ransmeier shows that these commonplace transactions built and restructured families as often as it broke them apart.

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