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• 夫权

n. (Trad=夫權, Pinyin=fu1 quan2) authority over the household

Husband 's authority, Masculine authority:
A man in China is usually subjected to the domination of three systems of authority [political authority, family authority and religious authority].... As for women, in addition to being dominated by these three systems of authority, they are also dominated by the men (the authority of the husband). These four authorities - political, family, religious and masculine

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book...

"Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, pp. 44-46.*

husband dominance

The Ryle Marital Patterns Test as a predictor of symptoms of ...文件格式: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Increase of wife dominance by i. 1.54. by 5. 8.63. Dominance direction (husband). Increase of husband dominance by i ... adds information on the dominance issue. Husband-. dominated marriages have been said to be indicate higher ...
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Emerald FullText Article : Marital influence in the decision ... - [ 翻译此页 BETA ]In fact, the husband showed very little dominance in the decision process for selecting a child’s school. ... The service totals for each of the three categories show that across all stages, husband dominance (41 percent) and equal ...
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a suggestion

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Or, patriarchal authority

[PDF] Patriarchalism in imperial China and Western EuropeFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
children of the house toward the patriarch's authority, so Confucianism ... tempered the patriarch's authority within his household, just as Mosaic law ...
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http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/essay.cfm

Patriarchal authority served the dynastic aspirations of some wealthy Virginia planters by perpetuating the power and influence of their house and lineage. Most important was preserving intact the ownership of family lands. The customs of primogeniture (inheritance by the eldest son) and entail (legal proscription against the sale or grant of land outside the lineage) supported the dynastic ambitions of the gentry. The right of fathers to will land to their sons when they came of age or married reinforced the patriarch's authority. Daughters' inheritances and marriage gifts usually took the form of slaves and livestock rather than land.




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Actually, it's a "male chauvinistic attitude". I think this would be more understandable in English.

patriarch thought, ideology, etc

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3）夫家的家庭规模、夫权思想的偏差观念，过度的防范与限. 制，影响外籍配偶來台的 生活适应。（4）教育程度及人格特质，对外籍配偶生活. 的适应，显现正面的关系。 ... joint living household, husband’s authority, and trading marriage that deeply ...



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or husband's authority over the household

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eg. lao3 banr4 (老伴儿), (of an old married couple) husband or wife. bu4 ze2 shou3 duan4 (不择手段), by fair means or foul; ... fu1 quan2 (夫权), authority over the household. shi1 xi3 yue1 han4 (施洗约翰), John the Baptist ...
http://www.vokabeln.de/v2_Chinesisch_Pinyin.htm



这四种权力——政权、族权、神权、夫权，代表了全部封建宗法的思想和制度，是束缚中国 人民特别是农民的四条极大的绳索。 ... With that overturned, the clan authority, the religious authority and the authority of the husband all begin to totter. ...
http://laoyuan.net/mybooks/maoyulu/31.htm



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I mean this noun phrase must be transformed into a verb one.

That is: Mr Li believe in the husband's authority over household, so...

Otherwise, it's difficult to handle the whole sentence.

domineering father/husband.