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Identifier: liondragoninnort00john (find matches)
Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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CHINESE BRIDES 207 But such regrettable incidents are rare in rural China.It is true that marriage is hardly ever preceded bylove-making, and that young people have as a ruleabsolutely no say in the important matter of thechoice of a husband. Yet the women of the farm-ing classes in a rural district such as Weihaiwei areby no means concealed from public view; if a youngman does not catch a sight of his betrothed atsome village festival or a theatrical performance heis sure to have many opportunities of beholding herat work in the fields at harvest time or washingclothes at the side of the local brook. Sometimes,indeed, the young couple grow up together inthe same household almost like brother and sister.This happens when, after child-betrothal has takenplace, the girls parents die or are too poor to keepher. She then passes to the bridegrooms family andis theoretically supposed to be brought up as adaughter of the house, though sometimes she istreated as a mere servant or drudge. Such

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