| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index. |
| Summary |
This study breaks down the relationship between female infanticide and Chinese culture and reconstructs that association as a product of historical processes of the nineteenth century. It takes as its explicit focus the changing perception of female infanticide in Chinese history. Without diminishing the seriousness of the problem of excess female mortality in either the Chinese present or past, it seeks to disrupt the familiar narrative about the continuity of female victimhood in China from the pre-modern era to the present, and to introduce the possibility of historical change. |
| Contents |
Deciding a child's fate : women and birth -- Reforming customs : scholars and morality -- Seeing bodies : experts and evidence -- Saving souls : missionaries and redemption -- Reframing female infanticide : the emerging nation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Female infanticide -- China -- History -- 19th century.
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Female infanticide. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: King, Michelle Tien, author. Between birth and death 9780804785983 |
| ISBN |
9780804788939 (electronic book) |
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0804788936 (electronic book) |
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9780804785983 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804785988 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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