Women and the family in Chinese history /
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2003, ©2002.
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| Series: | Critical Asian scholarship.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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 women in Liu Kezhuang's family.
- 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.
