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1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical Asian scholarship
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Critical Asian scholarship.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index. |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- China -- History.
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Women. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Women -- China -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Women -- China -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Families -- China.
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Families. |
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Kinship -- China -- History.
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Kinship. |
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China -- Social life and customs.
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China -- Social conditions -- 960-1644. |
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China -- Civilization -- 960-1644. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- Women and the family in Chinese history. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003, ©2002 0415288223 0415288231 (DLC) 2002031601 (OCoLC)50215114 |
ISBN |
0203218213 (electronic book) |
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9780203218211 (electronic book) |
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0415288223 (Cloth) |
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0415288231 (paperback) |
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9786610546893 |
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6610546894 |
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