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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791486303321

Autore

Hinsch Bret

Titolo

Women in early Imperial China [[electronic resource] /] / Bret Hinsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011

ISBN

1-282-71338-8

9786612713385

0-7425-6824-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Collana

Asia/Pacific/Perspectives

Disciplina

305.40931

Soggetti

Women - China - History

Women - China - Social conditions

China History Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C

China History Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Context; 2 Kinship; 3 Wealth and Work; 4 Law; 5 Government; 6 Learning; 7 Ritual; 8 Cosmology; Conclusion; Notes; Glossary of Chinese Terms; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Recognized as the leading work in the field, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Now in a revised edition that incorporates the latest scholarship and theoretical approaches, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese to paint a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. Bret Hinsch's introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters explore women's roles from the multiple perspectives of kinship, wealth and work, law, government, learning