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Bossler Beverly Jo |
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Courtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity : gender and social change in China, 1000-1400 / / Beverly Bossler |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (ix, 464 pages) : illustrations |
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Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; ; 83 |
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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. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-456) and index. |
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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. |
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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- |
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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. |
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UNINA9910157828703321 |
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Autore |
Gardner Robert <1929-> |
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Experiments for future forensic scientisits / / Robert Gardner and Joshua Conklin |
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New York : , : Enslow Publishing, , 2017 |
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�2017 |
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1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Experiments for future STEM professionals |
Gale eBooks |
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Forensic sciences |
Forensic sciences - Experiments |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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The experiments in this book allow young scientists to investigate and |
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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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