Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History (New Approaches to Asian History) by Susan L. Mann

Author:Susan L. Mann [Mann, Susan L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781139156233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

One day I was called in to show my goods to a family where the daughter was to be married. I saw her. She was not beautiful, but was well grown and pleasant to look upon. A month later I heard that she was dead. She had taken opium. Her family had sold her to a wealthy man of the town for a concubine.

Ning Lao T’ai-t’ai (Pruitt 1945:182)

Miss Zhao Wujie, of Nanyang Street, Changsha, was engaged to marry Wu Fenglin, of Ganziyuan, on November 14, 1919. As a matter of course the match had been arranged by her parents and the matchmaker. Although Miss Zhao had had only the brief ritual encounters with the fiancé, she disliked him intensely and was unwilling to marry him. Her parents refused to undo the match and to postpone the wedding date. On the day of the wedding as Miss Zhao was being raised aloft in the bridal chair to be delivered to the home of the groom, she drew out a dagger which she had previously concealed in the chair and slit her throat.

Zhou Shizhao, “My Recollections of Chairman Mao in Changsha before and after the May Fourth Movement” (Witke 1967:128; Romanization modified)

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