1450-1750+East+Asia+Theme+5


 * Gender Roles and Relations
 * Strictly patriarchal
 * Boy children preferred over girls


 * Widows were encourage to commit suicide


 * Family and Kinship
 * Racial and Ethnic Constructs
 * Manchus were the ethnic elite
 * forbade intermarriage with Chinese
 * Captured Korea, Mongolia, and China
 * Chinese (Qianlong)
 * People of China ranked over the Viets, Burmese, and Nepalese


 * Social and Economic Classes