Yuba Study Of Women’s Rights And Interests In The Qing Dynasty

Yuba is located in the eastern Sichuan hills, it is the meeting point of Yangtze river and Jailing river. Yuba’s economy、education and culture have achieved a certain degree of development in the Qing dynasty, and the local still has a very rich archives. this paper regard Yuba file included in the files and contracts as the breakthrough point, done research on what rights and interests Yuba women especially married women have and their place in their families.First of all, women in the process of concluding the marriage, have a certain autonomy, women’s marriage is the consent of their parents, but local exists the phenomenon of free love, the women’s marriage concluded has her own emotion, women remarried autonomy is stronger, if she forced to marriages, she can out of marriage by the judicial relief way.Second, women’s human rights are protected by the government, widow is the leader in the precess of adopting an inheritor, The qing government not only expressly provides that the protagonist of the feast for the widow in the law, but also maintain this right of the female in the judicial practice, to ensure that the widow has good living environment. Recorded in this case, can be found, though the government allows families take part in the adoption activity, if the two sides dispute occurs, the government often stand on the side of women, for the relatives of the punishment;women have right of education and command for their children and the right to receive suport from their children.Finally, women have a certain property rights, Yuba, a business flourish town, married women to participate in business activities and management of family property is not rare, especially widowed women, although the children is the successor of the property, but as a result of living for the law and the respect for the elderly thinking in ancient China, the influence of the female elders is very important in the operation and management of the family property, sometimes they can one pummel bench a sound. But at the same time, the female’s property management of the containment by her husband’s families, their property transactions interference of women, and even trying to devour the family property which under the women control, This is a problem that the women has to resolve in the process of property management.In addition, Through the study of lease dispute women face Estate dispute Commercial disputes and the emergence of new Labour disputes, can see that the women also have some rights to participate in litigation, women’s level for social production participation in slowly deepen, women’s status and role is changing, Yuba will appear this kind of change, in the society is a miniature of the Qing dynasty social change.