UID:
edocfu_9959240386002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (302 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-44292-0
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0-415-28823-1
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1-134-44293-9
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1-280-54689-1
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0-203-21821-3
Serie:
Critical Asian scholarship
Inhalt:
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale of women into forced concubinary, to the excesses of the imperial harem, excruciating pain of footbinding, and Confucian ideas of womanly virtue.Patricia Ebrey places these sociological anal
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Women, money, and class: Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian views on women; Concubines in Song China; Shifts in marriage finance from the sixth to the thirteenth century; The early stages in the development of descent group organization; Cremation in Song China; Surnames and Han Chinese identity; Rethinking the imperial harem: Why were there so many palace women?; Gender and sinology: shifting Western interpretations of footbinding, 1300 1890; Notes; References; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-29475-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-28822-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203218211
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