Concubines Banned
(N Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) HONG KONG, July 9. Hong Kong’s Legislative Council today passed a law banning the ancient Chinese custom of allowing men to take concubines. The law, which will come into force next year, says: “No man may take a concubine, and no woman may acquire the status of a concubine.” Hong Kong concubines enjoy many of the rights of legal wives, although the practice has long been banned in China and Taiwan.
The new law recognises the status of existing concubines and their children, but strips all rights from those practising concubinage in future. Concubinage has been slowly dying out in- Hong Kong, but many people still have both a “tsai” (wife) and a “tsip” (concubine).
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Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 13
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