Title Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / Janet M. Theiss.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 281 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
Summary	'Disgraceful Matters' presents a discussion of the political significance of a widespread cult of female chastity in 18th century China. Janet Theiss has studied the laws, legal cases regulations, & policies through which female virtue was defined enforced & contested.
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Subject	Chastity.
	Chastity.
	Women -- China -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	China.
	Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1644-1912
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Added Title	Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Other Form:	Print version: Theiss, Janet M., 1964- Disgraceful matters. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520240332 (DLC) 2004009186 (OCoLC)55008321
ISBN	9780520930667 (electronic book)
	0520930665 (electronic book)
	0520240332
	9780520240339