Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN:
9781442255029
Content:
This volume completes McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of empresses and imperial concubines as mere victims or playthings, this book considers them as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor's relations with others.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Prologue -- From the Song to the Qing, the Last One Thousand Years -- The Polyandrous Empress -- Royal Courts, Polygamy, and the Women's Quarters -- Women Rulers in Other Parts of Eurasia, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries -- Notes -- Part I: The Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368 -- 1 The Song Dynasty, 960-1279 -- No Calamitous Women -- Trends in Masculinity and Femininity in the Song -- The Six Bureaus of the Women's Service Organization and the Titles of Consorts -- The Northern Song, 960-1127 -- The Legend of Lady Huarui, Who Tried to Poison Taizu -- A Different Way of Recording Wives -- The Rise of Empress Dowager Liu, Former Entertainer -- The Curtained Divide -- A Hidden Mother -- An Empress Deposed for Fighting with a Consort -- An Heir Apparent Who Tried to Run Away and an Empress-Regent Who Refused to Step Down -- Great Empress Dowager Gao, "a Yao and Shun among Women" -- In Twenty Years of Marriage, the Emperor and Empress Never Had a Fight -- A Deposed Empress Becomes a Heroine during the Fall of the Northern Song -- Emperor Huizong, Prolific Polygamist and Patron of the Arts -- Empress Zheng Accompanies the Emperor into Captivity, Gaozong's Mother Returns -- A Celestial Consort and a Courtesan Lover -- The Southern Song, 1127-1279 -- Connoisseurs and Collectors of Art, Empress Wu and Honored Consort Liu -- Wearing Clothing for Years at a Time -- The Atrocities of Empress Li -- An Actress Becomes Empress -- Empress Xie Dissuades the Emperor from Moving the Capital -- Thirty Women in One Night -- Conclusion: The Role of the Empress in the Song -- Notes -- 2 The Jin and Yuan Dynasties, 1115-1368 -- The Jin Dynasty, 1115-1234 -- Hailing, Stealer of Wives -- His Stepmother Criticizes His Plan to Conquer the Song -- "He Became Poisoned with Lust and Delusion".
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442255012
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442255012
Language:
English
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