In most cases, the most control over family property that a widow would receive was maintenance, or the agency to control the property while an heir came of age [REF].
The Kuomintang, which assumed power over China in 1911, publicly advocated for gender equality, though not very many changes in property rights went into effect until the enactment of the Republican Civil Code in 1930, which changed the basic definitions of property and family inheritance [REF].