All of the following statements about Han genealogy are correct except:
a. the tsu is a corporate kin group that traces its ancestry back about five generations through the female line.
b. the tsu functions as an economic and political unit that manages its own members.
c. Han women have absolutely no claims on their fathers’ heritable property.
d. because of the genealogical depth of the tsu, individuals who have the same surname should not marry each other.
e. although a woman belongs to her father’s tsu, she is practically absorbed by her husband’s.
ANSWER: a
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