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  title info:
    title: Sold people
    sub title: traffickers and family life in north China
  name:
    name part: Ransmeier, Johanna S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 395 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Sold People considers human trafficking in China not as a symptom of social problems like poverty or famine, but as a widespread practice and imbedded process extending far beyond times of crisis into the very heart of family life. It follows the lives of sold people and their traffickers closely, demonstrating how the trade in people was shaped, encouraged and even enabled by Chinese family structure. In 1910, the Qing government promulgated legislation to abolish slavery and prohibit trafficking. Reformers hoped that this would help usher China into an international community of modern nations. On the ground, the country's new police found these laws almost impossible to enforce. Urbanization, commercialization, industrialization, the development of modern transportation systems and the fractious militarization that followed China's 1911 revolution created a perfect environment for entrepreneurial brokers to meet old needs with new criminal strategies. The dynasty's Republican successors struggled to eliminate the deeply entrenched and yet malleable trade in people.
  table of contents: Introduction -- A young woman as portable property -- The flow of trafficking in the late Qing -- New laws and emerging language -- Fictive families and children in the marketplace -- Moving beyond the reach of the law -- The warlord's widow and the chief of police -- Domestic bonds -- Talking with traffickers -- Conclusion.
  note: Johanna S. Ransmeier.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Human trafficking
    geographic: China
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Families
    geographic: China
    topic: History
  classification: HQ281 .R26 2017
  classification: 306.850951
  identifier: 9780674971974
  identifier: 0674971973
  identifier: 2016038100
  record info:
    record content source: MH/DLC
    record creation date: 160816
    record change date: 20170926115411.0
    record identifier: in00003830648