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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. [6] 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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. [73] 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.
The romance of Xiang Yu and Consort Yu has been the subject of plays, films and television series, even though not much about Consort Yu was recorded in history. The story was reenacted on stage in the Peking opera The Hegemon-King Bids His Lady Farewell, which is also a trope of the Palme d'Or-winning film Farewell, My Concubine.
Pilegesh (Hebrew: פִּילֶגֶשׁ) is a Hebrew term for a concubine, a female, unmarried sexual slave [1] of social and legal status inferior to that of a wife. [2] [3] Among the Israelites, some men acknowledged their concubines, and such women enjoyed the same rights in the house as legitimate wives. [4]
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.