books.google.co.uk - Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews,...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Misers_Shrews_and_Polygamists.html?id=B6k9eEpDJBAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMisers, Shrews, and Polygamists