Sold people : traffickers and family life in North China /
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, d...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
