Chinese Woman In Southeast Asia

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China was and is a society organized into patrilineal descent groups. A girl married and entered her husband's family, leaving her own parents' home for good. In Confucian China women were ideally weak, subordinate and subservient, exhorted to be dependent first on father, then on husband, and finally on son, in the "three Confucian obediences". Women were thus "thrice without a home". The seven grounds Confucius named on which a man could divorce his wife included jealousy, talkativeness, malignant disease and adultery and were codified in Chinese Law. A wife had no grounds for divorcing her husband. Chinese women, as with women elsewhere, are today no longer a subservient species. In this book a team of American scholars look at immigrant Chinese women in Southeast Asia with their emphasis on present and future roles. ISBN:9971650452