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Women and the Family in Chinese History
By Patricia Buckley Ebrey
305 pages
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- New York
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- 2002
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Synopsis
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. Topics range from dowries, the sale of women into concubinary, the excesses of the imperial harem, and footbinding.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Critical Asian Scholarship ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vi
- Acknowledgments viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian Views on Women 10
- 2 - Concubines in Song China 39
- 3 - Shifts in Marriage Finance from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Century 62
- 4 - The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family 89
- 5 - The Early Stages in the Development of Descent Group Organization 107
- 6 - Cremation in Song China 144
- 7 - Surnames and Han Chinese Identity 165
- 8 - Why Were There So Many Palace Women? 177
- 9 - Shifting Western Interpretations of Footbinding, 1300–1890 194
- Notes 220
- Critical Asian Scholarship ii
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vi
- Acknowledgments viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 - Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian Views on Women 10
- 2 - Concubines in Song China 39
- 3 - Shifts in Marriage Finance from the Sixth to the Thirteenth Century 62
- 4 - The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family 89
- 5 - The Early Stages in the Development of Descent Group Organization 107
- 6 - Cremation in Song China 144
- 7 - Surnames and Han Chinese Identity 165
- 8 - Why Were There So Many Palace Women? 177
- 9 - Shifting Western Interpretations of Footbinding, 1300–1890 194
- Notes 220
- References 255
- Index 279