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Until the Song dynasty (960–1276), it was considered a serious breach of social ethics to promote a concubine to a wife. [72] During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the status of concubines improved. It became permissible to promote a concubine to wife, if the original wife had died and the concubine was the mother of the only surviving sons.
She was a concubine of Emperor Go-Fukakusa from 1271 to 1283, and later became a Buddhist nun. [1] After years of travelling, around 1304–07 she wrote a memoir, Towazugatari ("An Unasked-For Tale", commonly translated into English as The Confessions of Lady Nijō ), the work for which she is known today, and which is also the only substantial ...
Although usage of the word concubina during the Roman Empire poses ambiguities of role and status, the difference between the Imperial-era concubine as a subject of legal interest and a paelex or extralegal concubine during the Republic is fairly straightforward: the paelex was a woman "installed" by a married man as a sexual rival to his wife, [8] whereas the concubina was a wife-like ...
Through her story "Altun Zincir" (Golden Chain) Melek narrates the story of sorrow of Caucasian concubines of the harem for missing their Caucasus homeland and pointed out that in spite of elite life opportunities for some of these concubines, at the end of the day they remain slaves and their existence as a woman gets ruined. [247] [248]
Möge Khatun was a concubine of Genghis Khan and she later became a wife of his son Ögedei Khan. [22] The Persian historian Ata-Malik Juvayni records that Möge Khatun "was given to Chinggis Khan by a chief of the Bakrin tribe, and he loved her very much." Ögedei favored her as well and she accompanied him on his hunting expeditions. [23]
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Raise the Red Lantern [4] (traditional Chinese: 大紅燈籠高高掛; simplified Chinese: 大红灯笼高高挂), originally known as Wives and Concubines (Chinese: 妻妾成群; pinyin: Qīqiè Chéngqún), is a 1990 novella by Su Tong, published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. [] (遠流出版公司), [5] that describes a female former university student whose mind is broken by the concubine ...
Here, we follow the story of a young Eritrean woman who crossed mountains, oceans and deserts to escape the small, secretive East African nation. This series is based on research by the Overseas Development Institute, Journeys to Europe, was produced by PositiveNegatives, and was animated by The Huffington Post.