| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index. |
| Contents |
Moral heroism and craving for extremes : the Ming period (13681644) -- Putting young heroines in the spotlight : the seventeenth century -- The state and the social webs of exaltation : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Dissuading the resolute : the families of faithful maidens -- Dying for an ideal : the choice of suicide -- A young life, a long journey : living as a faithful maiden -- Old rituals and new questions : the faithful maiden debate. |
| Summary |
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the 'faithful maiden' cult in late imperial China (1368-1911). These 'faithful maidens' chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Single women -- China -- History.
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Single women. |
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China. |
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History. |
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Single women -- China -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Young women -- China -- History.
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Young women. |
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Young women -- China -- Social conditions.
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China -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lu, Weijing. True to her word. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007037545 |
| ISBN |
9780804786782 (electronic book) |
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080478678X (electronic book) |
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9780804758086 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804758085 |
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