LEADER 03841nam 2200589 450 001 9910480773403321 005 20210330190706.0 010 $a1-68417-067-2 024 7 $a10.1163/9781684170678 035 $a(CKB)3710000000824107 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6380448 035 $a(OCoLC)956711797 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9781684170678 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000824107 100 $a20210330d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCourtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity $egender and social change in China, 1000-1400 /$fBeverly Bossler 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Asia Center,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 464 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$v83 311 08$a0-674-06669-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [433]-456) and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aThis book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups -- and of male discourses about them -- transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture profoundly affected Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage and entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was in turn significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and the new markets in women it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced ritual recognition of concubine mothers and expressed increased concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the sometimes surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from its inception the drive to celebrate female loyalty stemmed from a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women -- and men's relationships with them -- seriously, Beverly Bossler demonstrates the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties. 410 0$aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$v83. 606 $aCourtesans$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMan-woman relationships$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSex role$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWives$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aConcubinage$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aWomen$zChina$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCourtesans$xHistory 615 0$aMan-woman relationships$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aWives$xHistory 615 0$aConcubinage$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.40951 700 $aBossler$b Beverly Jo$0782920 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480773403321 996 $aCourtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity$91738807 997 $aUNINA