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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Hygienic modernity [[electronic resource] ] : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China / / Ruth Rogaski |
Autore | Rogaski Ruth |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (419 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.1/0951/09034 |
Collana | Asia--local studies/global themes |
Soggetto topico |
Health behavior - China
Public health - China |
Soggetto non controllato |
asia
china chinese history chinese medicine cleanliness confucius cosmology diet discrimination disease east asia eastern medicine ethnicity health and wellness health care health history of medicine hygiene imperialism japan japanese history madness medication medicine meditation modernity nonfiction personal hygiene prejudice public health qing race racial science racism sanitation science sovereignty tianjin treaty port urban history weisheng |
ISBN |
0-520-93060-6
9786612357299 1-282-35729-8 1-59734-666-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | "Conquering the one hundred diseases": weisheng before the twentieth century -- Health and disease in Heaven's Ford -- Medical encounters and divergences -- Translating weisheng in treaty-port China -- Transforming eisei in Meiji Japan -- Deficiency and sovereignty: hygienic modernity in the occupation of Tianjin, 1900-1902 -- Seen and unseen: the urban landscape and boundaries of weisheng -- Weisheng and the desire for modernity -- Japanese management of germs in Tianjin -- Germ warfare and patriotic weisheng. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783315603321 |
Rogaski Ruth
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