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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784056003321

Autore

Ebrey Patricia Buckley <1947, >

Titolo

Women and the family in Chinese history / / Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003, c2002

ISBN

1-134-44292-0

0-415-28823-1

1-134-44293-9

1-280-54689-1

0-203-21821-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Critical Asian scholarship

Disciplina

306.85/0951

Soggetti

Women - China - History

Women - China - Social conditions

Women - China - Social life and customs

Families - China - History

Kinship - China - History

China Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Women, money, and class: Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian views on women; Concubines in Song China; Shifts in marriage finance from the sixth to the thirteenth century; The early stages in the development of descent group organization; Cremation in Song China; Surnames and Han Chinese identity; Rethinking the imperial harem: Why were there so many palace women?; Gender and sinology: shifting Western interpretations of footbinding, 1300  1890; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley.  In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time.  The



essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale of women into forced concubinary, to the excesses of the imperial harem, excruciating pain of footbinding, and Confucian ideas of womanly virtue.Patricia Ebrey places these sociological anal