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Tables and Figures tables 1. Age of Jiating Yanjiu Survey Respondents 35 2. Chen’s Survey, Unengaged Men: Who Should Choose Your Wife? 66 3. Chen’s Survey, Married Men: My Wife’s Satisfactory Qualities 71 4. Pan’s Survey: Men’s Ranking of the Purposes of Marriage 76 5. Pan’s Survey: Women’s Ranking of the Purposes of Marriage 76 6. Pan’s Survey: Important Qualities in a Wife 76 7. Pan’s Survey: Important Qualities in a Husband 77 8. Grounds Women Used to Sue for Divorce, and Outcomes 114 9. Grounds Women Used to Sue to Live Apart, and Outcomes 114 10. Occupations of Visitors to the Marriage Questions Desk 181 figures 1. Chen’s survey: age of married and engaged respondents 58 2. Pan’s survey: marital status and age of male respondents 59 vii 3. Pan’s survey: occupations of male respondents 60 4. Pan’s survey: occupations of female respondents 61 5. Chen’s survey: actual versus ideal age at marriage 65 6. Choreography of an ideal Nationalist wedding 88 7. Choreography of a new-style Shanghai wedding 90 8. Participants in a Nationalist group wedding 130 9. Chen Yunlong and Wang Ximei 144 10. “Freedom of marriage, a life of prosperity and happiness” 187 11. “Protecting the interests of women and children” 188 12. “Widows have a right to remarry” 189 13. “Marrying at the proper age” 190 viii Tables and Figures ...

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