03321nam 2200733Ia 450 991082793590332120200520144314.01-134-44292-00-415-28823-11-134-44293-91-280-54689-10-203-21821-310.4324/9780203218211 (CKB)1000000000256186(EBL)180847(OCoLC)56344404(SSID)ssj0000313461(PQKBManifestationID)11212645(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313461(PQKBWorkID)10358554(PQKB)10408283(MiAaPQ)EBC180847(Au-PeEL)EBL180847(CaPaEBR)ebr10100987(CaONFJC)MIL54689(EXLCZ)99100000000025618620020731h20032002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen and the family in Chinese history /Patricia Buckley Ebrey1st ed.London ;New York Routledge2003, c20021 online resource (302 p.)Critical Asian scholarshipDescription based upon print version of record.0-203-29475-0 0-415-28822-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 analCritical Asian scholarship.WomenChinaHistoryWomenChinaSocial conditionsWomenChinaSocial life and customsFamiliesChinaHistoryKinshipChinaHistoryChinaSocial life and customsWomenHistory.WomenSocial conditions.WomenSocial life and customs.FamiliesHistory.KinshipHistory.306.85/0951Ebrey Patricia Buckley1947-637588MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827935903321Women and the family in Chinese history4187467UNINA