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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 ...
The abduction and rape of queen Cura Ocllo (the wife and full sister of the Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui) also happened during this period. Cuxirimay Ocllo herself was made the concubine of Francisco Pizarro. She was converted to Catholicism, baptized and given the name Angelina Yupanqui. She lived with Pizarro in Lima between 1538 and 1541.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 Levite's concubine in the book of Judges is "vulnerable as she is only a minor wife, a concubine". [2]: 173 She is one of the biblical nameless. Frymer-Kensky says this story is also an example of class intersecting with gender and power: when she is unhappy she runs home, only to have her father give her to another, the Levite.
"The Priest of Shiga Temple and His Love" appeared in the UNESCO collection Modern Japanese Stories. [5] A British edition appeared the following year, published by Secker & Warburg. [2] "Manatsu no shi" ("Death in Midsummer") was also the name of a collection of Mishima short stories published by Sōgensha in 1953. Apart from the title story ...