Autore	McMahon Keith
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (313 p.)
Disciplina	951.009/9
Soggetto topico	Emperors' spouses - China - History Mistresses - China - History Polygamy - Political aspects - China - History Concubinage - China - History Emperors' spouses - China Mistresses - China Women - Political activity - China - History Sex role - China - History
ISBN	1-4422-5502-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Prologue: After Wu Zetian -- Part 1. The Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- The Song dynasty -- The Jin and Yuan dynasties, 1115-1368 -- Part 2. The Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- From founder to 1505 -- Three intemperate rulers, 1506-1572 -- The last Ming emperors, 1573-1644 -- Conclusion: Giving reign to imperial will -- Part 3. The Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 -- The founding of the Qing, 1636-1722 -- From Yongzheng to Xianfeng (1722-1861) -- Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) -- Conclusion: The lack of good sons -- Conclusion to part 3 -- Appendix.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910798234403321

Autore	Dien Dora Shu-fang
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (123 p.)
Disciplina	951/.017/092 B
Soggetto topico	Empresses - China Women - China - History Sex role - China - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-62081-597-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The ideological backdrop -- Destinies of the flowers in the mirror -- Li Ruzhen's commentary on Chinese society -- The rise and fall of the historical Empress Wu -- Empress Wu's achievements -- Gender distinctions in traditional China -- Defiant women in legend and fiction -- Overcoming the legacy of Confucianism: urban educated women today.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461270803321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Scattle, Washington ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina	304.420951
Soggetto topico	Women - China - Social conditions Women - China - History Sex role - China - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78539-755-9 0-295-80601-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology; Chronology; Introduction. Beverly Bossler; Part One. Early Modern Evolutions; Chapter One. Les Noces chinoises: An Eighteenth-Century French Representation of a Chinese Wedding Procession / Ann Waltner; Chapter Two. The Control of Female Energies: Gender and Ethnicity on China's Southeast Coast / Guotong Li; Chapter Three. Collecting Masculinity: Merchants and Gender Performance in Eighteenth-Century China / Yulian Wu; Chapter Four. Writing Love: The Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing / Weijing Lu Part Two. "Cloistered Ladies" to New Women Chapter Five. "Media-Savvy" Gentlewomen of the 1870's and Beyond / Ellen Widmer; Chapter Six. The Fate of the Late Imperial "Talented Woman": Gender and Historical Change in Early-Twentieth-Century China / Joan Judge; Chapter Seven. Moving to Shanghai: Urban Women of Means in the Late Qing / Yan Wang; Part Three. Radicalism and Ruptures; Chapter Eight. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig; Chapter Nine. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter; Glossary of Chinese Characters; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461030103321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina	305.3/0951
Collana	Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
Soggetto topico	Sex role - China - History Women - China - Social conditions Women - China - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7425-3824-9 0-7425-8134-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation Bryna Goodman and Tendy Larson; Part I: Patterns of Mobility; 1 Making Sex Work: Polyandry as a Survival Strategy in Qing Dynasty China Matthew H. Sommer; 2 The Virtue of Travel for Women in the Late Empire Susan Mann; 3 Gender on Stage: Actresses in an Actors' World (1895-1930) Luo Suwen; 4 Women on the Move: Women's Kinship, Residence, and Networks in Rural Shandong Ellen R. Judd; Part II: Spatial Transformations 5 Between Nei and Wai: Chinese Women Students in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century Joan Judge6 Playing with the Public: Late Qing Courtesans and Their Opera Singer Lovers Catherine Vance Yeh; 7 Unofficial History and Gender Boundary Crossing in the Early Chinese Republic: Shen Peizhen and Xiaofengxian Madeleine Yue Dong; 8 Gender and Maoist Urban Reorganization Wang Zheng; 9 He Yi's The Postman: The Work Space of a New Age Maoist Wendy Larson; Part III: Boundaries; 10 Women's Work and the Economics of Respectability Kenneth Pomeranz 11 The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of ""Personhood"" in Early Republican China Bryna Goodman12 Women's Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu's Popular Novels Tze-lan Deborah Sang; 13 Virtue at Work: Rural Shaanxi Women Remember the 1950s Gail Hershatter; Index; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452651503321