1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480773403321

Autore

Bossler Beverly Jo

Titolo

Courtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity : gender and social change in China, 1000-1400 / / Beverly Bossler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-68417-067-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 464 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; ; 83

Disciplina

305.40951

Soggetti

Courtesans - China - History - To 1500

Man-woman relationships - China - History - To 1500

Sex role - China - History - To 1500

Wives - China - History - To 1500

Concubinage - China - History - To 1500

Women - China - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-456) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part One. Culture, Politics, and Gender in the Northern Song. 1. Courtesans and the Northern Song elite ; 2. The courtesan as concubine ; 3. Prose, politics, and prodigies -- Part Two. Markets, Mayhem, and Morality in the Southern Song. 4. Performance anxiety ; 5. Entertainers to ancestors ; 6. Loss, loyalty, and local leverage -- Part Three. Conquerors and Culture in the Yuan. 7. Exemplary entertainers ; 8. Performers, paramours, and parents ; 9. Entertaining exemplars.

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups -- and of male discourses about them -- transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture profoundly affected Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage and entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-



Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was in turn significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and the new markets in women it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced ritual recognition of concubine mothers and expressed increased concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the sometimes surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from its inception the drive to celebrate female loyalty stemmed from a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women -- and men's relationships with them -- seriously, Beverly Bossler demonstrates the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157828703321

Autore

Gardner Robert <1929->

Titolo

Experiments for future forensic scientisits / / Robert Gardner and Joshua Conklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Enslow Publishing, , 2017

�2017

ISBN

0-7660-8203-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Experiments for future STEM professionals

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

363.25

Soggetti

Forensic sciences

Forensic sciences - Experiments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ch. 1. Dactyloscopy : studying fingerprints -- ch. 2. Other prints left at crime scenes -- ch. 3. Bodies, bones, blood, and bullets -- ch. 4. Documents and inks -- ch. 5. Paper, forgery, and counterfeiting -- ch. 6. Codes and crime -- ch. 7. Sleuthing : the skills needed for investigating crimes.

Sommario/riassunto

The experiments in this book allow young scientists to investigate and



analyze evidence, including fingerprints, tool marks, and tracks; figure out how surrounding conditions affect body temperature to determine time of death; identify counterfeit money; and much more.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155116403321

Autore

Bianculli Andrea <1968-, >

Titolo

Negotiating trade liberalization in Argentina and Chile : when policy creates politics / / Andrea C. Bianculli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-66918-8

1-317-36335-3

1-317-36334-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Routledge studies in Latin American politics ; ; 17

Disciplina

382/.71098

382.71098

Soggetti

Free trade - Argentina

Free trade - Chile

Argentina Commercial policy

Chile Commercial policy

Argentina Commerce

Chile Commerce

Latin America Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Making sense of trade : arguments and politics -- The contours of trade politics -- Unravelling trade politics : a cross-negotiation perspective -- Latin America in a complex web of trade negotiations -- Trade politics in Latin America : institutional legacies and political dynamics -- Trade politics in Argentina -- Trade politics in Chile -- When policy creates trade politics -- Trade politics in comparative perspective -- Trade politics in Latin America : past lessons, future challenges -- Appendix 1: Breakdown of interviews -- Appendix 2. List of trade agreements signed by Argentina and Chile



(1990-2005) -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How do international negotiations affect domestic politics? Starting in the 1990s, countries throughout Latin America embarked in multiple and simultaneous negotiations. On the shifting ground of widening and deepening trade agendas and diversifying arenas, what factors determined trade politics? Informed by interviews with public officials, business and civil society, this book examines the domestic political dynamics triggered by South-South, North-South and multilateral agendas in Argentina and Chile between 1990 and 2005. Bringing a much-needed cross-negotiation and cross-country comparative perspectives, and through detailed empirical analyses of several key negotiations, it proposes an explanation that emphasizes the interplay between international negotiations and domestic trade politics, taken as the result of the complex and dynamic interdependencies and interrelations between state and society.