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Feb 8, 2024 · In brief, the 1950 Marriage Law was a legal guarantee for the elimination of the feudal marriage and family system that men were superior to women and established a new democratic marriage and family system that men and women are equal.
Many peasants misunderstand the Marriage Law. They blindly emphasize that the Marriage Law “liberated” them. This is the case for some women in particular, who have become very unconventional and dissolute in their sexual relations.
- Neil J. Diamant
- 2000
the impact of the law. During a period when not a few theses in the China field have come and gone, the conservative betrayal thesis concerning the impact of the Marriage Law has remained amazingly resilient. Let us look at this thesis in greater detail, beginning with the primary cast of characters involved in the law's life and death ...
Mar 24, 2016 · The ideal vision of marriage embedded in the 1950 law has faced powerful challenges over time, especially as marital conflict and dissolution have received greater societal and legal attention in recent decades.
Jan 1, 2013 · China has passed its most significant family policies and laws in marriage; child rearing; child, women, and elderly... The Chinese family policies are shaped by the country’s political, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts and have evolved over the years.
- Yan Ruth Xia, Haiping Wang, Anh Do, Shen Qin
- 2014
May 5, 2021 · One of its strategic priorities was to establish a new socialist order by reconstructing China’s marriage and family system. This gave birth to the 1950 Marriage Law, which abolished polygamy, along with arranged marriages, mercenary marriages and child betrothals.
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Apr 3, 2000 · In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships.
