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Alienation
2014
Overview
Modern historians have observed that the married couple social unit took on a new political-economic importance during early Chinese empire. Qin-Han laws introduced the marriage-based house hold as the basic unit of society. Unlike the independent aristocratic polities of the Warring States period, all house holds were subordinate to the Emperor, and were required to register for the provision of taxes, labor, and military ser vice to the state. During the Former Han, tax penalties on unwed women (but not unwed men) and certain forms of co-residence helped to reduce house hold size to around four to six persons, thereby
