The Divorce Upsurge Of Shanxi In 1920s

The thesis studies the divorce upsurge that has been not studied specially so far in Shanxi in 1920s. Basing on exploiting and using fully files stored in archives and newspaper materials at that moment. In social history aspect, it studies elaborately and deeply the fact of divorce of Shanxi, it is the experimental and primary explore of partly study of the divorce of Shanxi in modern.The thesis consists of preface, main part and epilog. The preface concentrates on narrating the studying fact of Chinese divorce in modern, and the questions that still have not solved, introduces the studying objection, the goal, meaning and study way of the thesis. The main section is divided five chapters, the first chapter points out that the first divorce upsurge appeared in Shanxi province in 1920s. The second part is divided into eight parts and illustrates the features of divorce upsurge of Shanxi in 1920s. The divorce proportion that was appealed and fulfilled by women had been marked; The men questions had become divorce reasons; Emotional factor was dominant in divorce reasons; Economic issue was the secondly important reason that resulted in divorces of couples; Men and women divorcers were main primes, the young women divorce statistics were higher than young men; The farmers became the important roles of divorce upsurge; The phenomenon that men and women married and divorced constantly appeared; After divorce themen who remarried was less than women; In the meantime the social reasons that resulted in the features as above were elucidated in the thesis. The third chapter studies deeply how the martial law fulfilled by lots of cases of the day and its features in 1920s. The divorce right of men and women was basically equal; Emphasizing men and women themselves, shaking partly the emphasis of family in traditional society in divorce; making the emotion of men and women base; Emphasizing the truth of evident; focusing on the ethics. In fourth chapter shows the limit of divorce law fulfillment: Concubine was not the divorce' s reason; Underage people were allowed married, youngsters did not make full use of their right; Wives did not still get the equal right. The fifth chapter studies the meaning of divorce in Shanxi province in 1920s: It made martial custom modern; It made families modern; It made martial law modern. The epilog of this thesis points out that as a part of women emancipation, under the influence of traditional concept, the gain of divorce' s right was still not satisfied. It was only going on among the new intellectuals and the people who was a little or full of the freedom and equality concept, in countries, the traditional marital custom was not changed a little. At the moment, the thesis illustrates divorce affected deeply Shanxi's society, this is _ it inevitable became the accelerant that traditional marital custom transformed into modern marital custom, and made people traditional concept change into modern concept, and advanced fatherly society to develop.