Note 768 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE
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If he puts away his wife without just cause, he is to receive eighty blows with the bamboo and take her back: Wake, Marriage and Kinship, 232; Kohler, loc. cit., 375; Westermarck, op. cit., 523; Letourneau, op. cit., 300, 301; Doolittle, Social Life of the Chinese, I, 106, 107.
According to Tscheng-ki-Tong, China und die Chinesen, 55, barrenness is the only serious ground of divorce in China, and even of this little use is made, particularly by the aristocracy; but this view is not sustained by other evidence, divorce being frequent among the lower classes: Hellwald, op. cit., 380, 381.