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1 online resource. |
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Summary |
"Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women's life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called 'Song-Yuan-Ming transition' from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival"--Publisher's website. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Gates in and out of the Jia -- House gate (men) and lane gate (lü) -- Middle gate (zhong men) -- Gate titles for mothers -- II. Women on journeys -- Vehicles -- Traces -- III. Women in local communities -- Inner affairs (Nei Shi) and outer affairs (Wai Shi) -- Women and household economy -- IV. Women and local welfare -- Women and public projects -- Women and local governments -- Women's participation in local administration -- Women and governmental structures -- Women and lawsuits -- Women under the administration of local governments -- Gender consideration in local governments public projects -- V. Women and religion -- Laywomen in Confucian eyes -- Personal practices -- Religious communication with relatives and outsiders -- Religious excursions -- Buddhist funeral -- VI. Women and burial -- Tomb structure: from single-chamber to multi-chamber -- Joint burial: partition wall and passageway -- From inner/outer to left/right -- The problem of one man, many wives -- Funerary accessories from seven multi-chamber tombs -- Late Southern Song tombs -- Mural tombs -- Epilogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- China -- History -- To 1500.
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Women. |
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China. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Women -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500.
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China -- Fujian Sheng. |
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Sex role -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500.
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Sex role. |
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Social classes -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500.
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Social classes. |
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Social change -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500.
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Social change. |
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Fujian Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs.
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Fujian Sheng (China) -- Social conditions.
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China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Xu, Man, 1979- Crossing the Gate. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016] 9781438463216 (DLC) 2016007755 |
| ISBN |
9781438463223 (electronic book) |
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1438463227 (electronic book) |
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9781438463216 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1438463219 |
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