Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450352603321 |
Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
adultery chastity cult chastity shrines chastity china chinese history chinese women criminals domestic violence domesticity female chastity female sexuality female virtue femininity feminist law feminist theory gender roles gender studies gender hagiography imperial china imperialism innocent justice system laws legal cases legal system politics purity qing rape sexual assault sexual harassment sexual morality sexual virtue suicide widows women and the law women womens studies |
ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue |
Altri titoli varianti |
Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Chastity in 18th century China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783316403321 |
Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
adultery chastity cult chastity shrines chastity china chinese history chinese women criminals domestic violence domesticity female chastity female sexuality female virtue femininity feminist law feminist theory gender roles gender studies gender hagiography imperial china imperialism innocent justice system laws legal cases legal system politics purity qing rape sexual assault sexual harassment sexual morality sexual virtue suicide widows women and the law women womens studies |
ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue |
Altri titoli varianti |
Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Chastity in 18th century China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807870003321 |
Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0951/09032 |
Soggetto topico |
Married women - China - Social conditions
Polyandry - China Rural poor - China |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-520-96219-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT -- MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 -- Introduction -- 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" -- 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry -- 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice -- 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale -- 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales -- 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales -- 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children -- 8. Four Variations on a Theme -- 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing -- 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales -- 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- CHARACTER LIST -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460700803321 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] | ||
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0951/09032 |
Soggetto topico |
Married women - China - Social conditions
Polyandry - China Rural poor - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
asian studies chinese culture chinese law chinese wives east asian history gender studies history of wife selling imperial china late imperial china marital practices in imperial china marriage and family in china marriage and sex in china marriage in china multiple spouses in china polyandry polygamy in rural poor qing china qing dynasty history qing dynasty rural poor in china second husbands in china social history of china wife selling in china wife selling in qing china |
ISBN | 0-520-96219-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT -- MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 -- Introduction -- 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" -- 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry -- 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice -- 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale -- 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales -- 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales -- 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children -- 8. Four Variations on a Theme -- 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing -- 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales -- 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- CHARACTER LIST -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797496203321 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] | ||
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Polyandry and wife-selling in Qing dynasty China : survival strategies and judicial interventions / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (493 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.0951/09032 |
Soggetto topico |
Married women - China - Social conditions
Polyandry - China Rural poor - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian culture
asian studies chinese culture chinese law chinese wives east asian history gender studies history of wife selling imperial china late imperial china marital practices in imperial china marriage and family in china marriage and sex in china marriage in china multiple spouses in china polyandry polygamy in rural poor qing china qing dynasty history qing dynasty rural poor in china second husbands in china social history of china wife selling in china wife selling in qing china |
ISBN | 0-520-96219-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS IN THE TEXT -- MAP: Provinces of China Proper within the Qing Empire, circa 1800 -- Introduction -- 1. "Getting a Husband to Support a Husband" -- 2. Attitudes of Families, Communities, and Women toward Polyandry -- 3. The Intermediate Range of Practice -- 4. Anatomy of a Wife Sale -- 5. Analysis of the Prices in Wife Sales -- 6. Negotiations between Men over Wife Sales -- 7. Wives, Their Natal Families, and Children -- 8. Four Variations on a Theme -- 9. Formal Law and Central Court Interpretation from Ming through High Qing -- 10. Absolutism versus Pragmatism in Central Court Treatment of Wife Sales -- 11. Flexible Adjudication of Routine Cases in the Local Courts -- Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- CHARACTER LIST -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817454903321 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961->
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2015] | ||
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Sex, law, and society in late imperial China / / Matthew H. Sommer |
Autore | Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stanford, Calif. : , : Stanford University Press, , [2000] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : maps |
Disciplina | 306.7/0951 |
Collana | Law, society, and culture in China |
Soggetto topico |
Sex crimes - China - History
Sex and law - China - History Sex customs - China - History |
ISBN | 0-8047-6433-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- A Note on Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Vision of Sexual Order -- 3 The Evolution of Rape Law: Female Chastity and the Threat of the Outside Male -- 4 The Problem of the Penetrated Male: Qing Sodomy Legislation and the Fixing of Male Gender -- 5 Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives -- 6 Sexual Behavior as Status Performance: The Regulation of Prostitution Before 1723 -- 7 The Extension of Commoner Standards: Yongzheng Reforms and the Criminalization of Prostitution -- 8 Conclusion -- Appendixes -- A Basic Legislation Against Sex Offenses -- B Qing Sodomy Legislation -- C Forced Remarriage of Chaste Widows -- D Lu Kun's "Prohibitions Issued to Yue Households" -- E Dynasties and Reign Periods -- Reference Matter -- Notes -- References -- Character List -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248025503316 |
Sommer Matthew Harvey <1961->
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Stanford, Calif. : , : Stanford University Press, , [2000] | ||
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Tears from iron [[electronic resource] ] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda |
Autore | Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.80951/09034 |
Collana | Asia : local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico | Famines - China - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-520-93422-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462204103321 |
Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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Tears from iron [[electronic resource] ] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda |
Autore | Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.80951/09034 |
Collana | Asia : local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico | Famines - China - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century china
chinese history communist countries cultural responses to trauma drought and famine history of china horrific famine multi-layered history national crisis natural disasters in china new source materials oral accounts oral history poems poetry shanxi provience songs worlds worst famine |
ISBN | 0-520-93422-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790187203321 |
Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Tears from iron [[electronic resource] ] : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda |
Autore | Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.80951/09034 |
Collana | Asia : local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico | Famines - China - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century china
chinese history communist countries cultural responses to trauma drought and famine history of china horrific famine multi-layered history national crisis natural disasters in china new source materials oral accounts oral history poems poetry shanxi provience songs worlds worst famine |
ISBN | 0-520-93422-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Shanxi, greater China, and the famine -- Experiencing the famine : the hierarchy of suffering in a famine song from Xiezhou -- The wrath of heaven versus human greed -- Qing officialdom and the politics of famine -- Views from the outside : science, railroads, and laissez-faire economics -- Hybrid voices : the famine and Jiangnan activism -- Family and gender in famine -- The "feminization of famine" and the feminization of nationalism -- Eating culture : cannibalism and the semiotics of starvation, 1870-2001 -- Epilogue. New tears for new times : the famine revisited. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817935903321 |
Edgerton-Tarpley Kathryn <1970->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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