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  2. Concubinage in China - Wikipedia

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    In China specifically, in cases where the primary wife fails to have sons to preserve the male lineage, i.e. family name, a secondary wife is allowed by law via the sing-song girls concept. Although modern Chinese law explicitly prohibits polygamy, there has been a recent surge of polygamy in mainland China. Since the opening of China's borders ...

  3. Ren Hang (photographer) - Wikipedia

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    Ren Hang (Chinese: 任航; March 30, 1987 – February 24, 2017) was a Chinese photographer and poet. [1] [2] [3] During Ren's incipient career, he was known mostly for nude photographic portraits of his friends. His work is significant for its representation of Chinese sexuality within a heavily censored society.

  4. Traditional Chinese marriage - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese marriage (Chinese: 婚姻; pinyin: hūnyīn) is a ceremonial ritual within Chinese societies that involves not only a union between spouses but also a union between the two families of a man and a woman, sometimes established by pre-arrangement between families. Marriage and family are inextricably linked, which involves the ...

  5. Lin and Xie case - Wikipedia

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    The Lin and Xie case is an incident of a woman cutting off her husband's penis, that took place in Dongguan, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China in 2009. A family couple with husband Lin Mouru (林某儒, Mandarin: Lín Mǒurú, Jyutping: lam4 mau5 jyu4) and wife Xie Mouman (Simplified: 谢某曼, Traditional: 謝某曼, Mandarin: Xiè Mǒumàn, Jyutping: ze6 mau5 maan6) were in a decade ...

  6. Confucian view of marriage - Wikipedia

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    From the point of view of Confucian philosophy, one of the purposes of marriage is the cultivation of virtue. In the Chinese term for marriage ( Chinese : 婚姻 ; pinyin : hūn yīn ), hūn ( 婚 ) is derived from hūn ( 昏 , literally means "evening" or "dusk") in ancient writings, though the former has the radical character nǚ ( 女 ...

  7. DC plane crash latest updates: Transgender pilot speaks out ...

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    Friends described her as “a brave and beautiful soul, a light in the fight for civil rights.” The 30-year-old had been in Wichita to be with her mother during a surgical procedure, according ...

  8. Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song have kept their romance ... - AOL

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    Dating speculation began in the summer of 2017 when paparazzi snapped photos of them getting dinner at Craig's in Los Angeles.. Us Weekly reported that on September 29, Culkin and Song went on a ...

  9. One-line joke - Wikipedia

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    A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be pithy – concise and meaningful. [1] Comedians and actors use this comedic method as part of their performance, and many fictional characters are also known to deliver one-liners, including James Bond, who often makes pithy and laconic quips after disposing of a villain.