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Since China and foreign countries come into
contact with one another, Europeans with profound
knowledge of things Chinese have written about them
for the benefit of their countrymen. We have extracted and translated certain passages referring to adoption
of daughters, and set them down by way of corroboration. (a). Parker. Comparative Chinese Family Law.
1879, p. 23.
"Excluding local considerations, and special
topical circumstances, it may be said that ninety- nine by the hundred of adoptions are made by persons who are childless, and, of these again, seventy
per cent of adoptions are those of males.
(b).
Von Mollendorff. The Family Law of the
(c)
Chine se. 1896. p. 52.
"A man may adopt a person as son or daughter..
Jamieson. Chine se Family and Commercial Law.
1921, p. 27.
"If it (the tie of adoption) continues up to the
death of the adopter, the child, if a male will
become entitled to some share on division of the
family property."
Those who adopt daughters are mostly persons who have no daughters of their own. They adopt the
daughters of other people as their own daughters, to
solace their loneliness, and to receive from them such
attention as a girl would give to her own parents. A girl is naturally a gent le creature, able to give
pleasure and gratification to hermother. The status of
an adopted daughter differs in no respect whatever from that of a natural daughter. Not only do her
adoptive parents look upon her as their own daughter,
but their relatives also look upon her in exactly the
same light. That is why in Article 1077 of the Civil