[ **up:** [[Trial marriage]] ] --- # Love contracts - [[“The Utopian socialist Kang You-wei … made a strong plea for ‘love-contracts’ valid for a given period (jia-hao zhi yue).”]][^1] [^1]: Wolfram Eberhard, [[Eberhard. 'A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols', 1986.|A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought]] (London: Routledge, 1986), s.v. ‘sex’.