| Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang Subjects: Marriage law -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources; Marriage law -- China -- Cases -- Early works to 1800; Yuan dian zhang; China -- History -- Yuan dynasty 1260–1368; The Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century and Khubilai Khan's founding of the Yuan dynasty brought together under one government people of different languages, religions, and social customs. Chinese law evolved rapidly to accommodate these changes, as reflected in the great compendium Yuan dianzhang (Statutes and Precedents of the Yuan Dynasty). The records of legal cases contained in this seminal text, Bettine Birge shows, paint a portrait of medieval Chinese family life--and the conflicts that arose from it--that is unmatched by any other historical source. |