Innocent conspirators : an inquiry into the law of wives accompanying husbands in exile in the Qing legal system

• Main Author: Ng, Ziyang
• Other Authors: Chen Song-Chuan
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66239
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The low legal and social status of women in Qing China, especially with the concept of “Three Obediences” (obey the father as a daughter, the husband as a wife, and her sons in widowhood), is compounded by the patriarchal “benevolence” towards women in the Qing legal system, who treated them as depe...