Note 530 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
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Lubbock, op. cit., 86; Davis, The Chinese, I, 285; Letourneau, op. cit., 144, 145; Post, op. cit., 57.
Dargun, op. cit., 88, 91, says, besides the custom just mentioned, there is but one other survival of wife-capture among the Chinese—the forbidding of friendly intercourse between the newly wedded husband and the mother-in-law. Jameson, China Review, X, 95, thinks that in China there is no trace of capture; but Kohler, in ZVR., VI, 405, 406, gives an example of the alleged symbol of rape among the Chinese. Cf. Neumann, Asiatische Studien, I, 112; and Westermarck, Human Marriage, 387.
Araki, Japanisches Eheschliessungsrecht, 9, 10, denies the former existence in Japan of purchase or capture of wives.