The politics of marriage in contemporary ChinaPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction 1

2 The initiation of negotiations 24

3 Pre-marital ritual forms 41

4 Age at marriage 60

5 Choice of marriage partner 80

6 The ceremonial of marriage 108

7 The 'modernisation' of marriage and kinship structures 127

8 Marriage and the domestic group 142

9 Marriage and primary groups 165

10 Conclusions 184

List of abbreviations 189

Bibliography 190

Index 208