Women and the family in Chinese history / / Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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| Autore: |
Ebrey Patricia Buckley <1947, >
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| Titolo: |
Women and the family in Chinese history / / Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.85/0951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - China - History |
| Women - China - Social conditions | |
| Women - China - Social life and customs | |
| Families - China - History | |
| Kinship - China - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Social life and customs |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Women and the family in Chinese history |
| ISBN: | 1-134-44292-0 |
| 0-415-28823-1 | |
| 1-134-44293-9 | |
| 1-280-54689-1 | |
| 0-203-21821-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784056003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Critical Asian scholarship.