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by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. 294 pgs.

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books on: (Women China History) OR (Women China Social Conditions) OR (Women China Social Life And Customs) OR (Family China History) OR (Kinship China History)  - 38846 results

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Women and the Family in Chinese History
Book by Patricia Buckley Ebrey; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: China--Social Life And Customs, Family--China--History, Kinship--China--History, Women--China--History, Women--China--Social Conditions, Women--China--Social Life And Customs
...three chapters shift the focus from women to other features of the family and...In Chapter 6, Cremation in Song China, I extend this interest in the rituals...this essay I try to show that the history of cremation is much more complex...
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Women in Republican China: A Sourcebook
Book by Hua R. Lan, Vanessa L. Fong; M. E. Sharpe, 1999
Subjects: China--History--May Fourth Movement, 1919, Women--China--History--20th Century, Women--China--Social Conditions
...paper .-- ISBN 0-7656-0343-8 pbk. : alk. paper 1. Women-- China--History--20th century. 2. Women--China--Social conditions. 3. China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919. I. Lan, Hua R., 1945-- . II. Fong, Vanessa L., 1974-- III. Series...
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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
Book by Dorothy Ko, Jahyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Confucianism--Social Aspects, Women--China--History, Women--Japan--History, Women--Korea--History
...been absent from history, has been written...didactic texts for women. Martina Deuchlers...society in Korea and China was the civil...relations in Japan and China, as the chapters...handful of senior women historians in...A study of the history of marriage in...
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Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China
Book by Paul S. Ropp, Paola Zamperini, Harriet T. Zurndorfer; Brill, 2001
Subjects: China--History--Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, China--History--Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912, Suicide--China--History, Women--China--History
...and WmncnS Culture in Late imperial China, /.fiir Inzyeri l (;frin 13.1...basedlarglly on writings by Chinese women, perhaps the most notable ones are...philosophy and its role in Chinese history. As the field of Chinese studies has...
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On the Move: Women and Rural-To-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Book by Arianne M. Gaetano, Tamara Jacka; Columbia University Press, 2004
Subjects: China--Social Conditions--1976-, Migration, Internal--China, Rural Women--China--Social Conditions
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Imagining Matriarchy: "Kingdoms of Women" in Tang China
Journal article by Jennifer W. Jay; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996
Subjects: China--Social aspects, Matriarchy--Analysis, Women--China
...describes a Yellow Pond where the women bathed to get pregnant; male children...established tributary relations with Tang China in various degrees. Little information...yet used.(30) Aware that Japan had a history of female rulers, Tang China referred...
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Pun Ngai. Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Journal article by Karen Garner; China Review International, Vol. 12, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Book)--Book reviews
...collective workers or feminist movements in China to challenge the triple oppressive...were all ways, Pun argues, in which women workers expressed their alienation...Garner is an assistant professor of history at Empire State College specializing...
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The Cumberland Incident of 1928: Gender, Nationalism, and Social Change in American Mission Schools in China
Journal article by Gael Graham; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 6, 1994
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...occurring in China, they appreciated...with Ginling women simply to...between the women and men in pre-Communist China. NOTES...8 China Centenary...missionary women as feminists...Mission: A History of the First...
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Language, Women and Cultural Problems in China
Journal article by Yang Shu; Women and Language, Vol. 24, 2001
Subjects: China--Social aspects, Chinese language--Social aspects, Language and languages--China, Linguistic research--Analysis, Sex discrimination against women--China, Women--Social aspects
...endure. It is usually believed that women often divide brother against brother...fact, several dynasties in Chinese history put blame on females for ruining the...century AD) and Jiang Qing in modern China. As a little poem says: "A woman with...
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Teaching about Women in China and Japan: A Thematic Approach
Journal article by Lyn Reese; Social Education, Vol. 67, 2003
Subjects: Social sciences--Study and teaching, Women--Political activity
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Intimacy and Painting in Ming China
Magazine article by Craig Clunas; History Today, Vol. 52, August 2002
Subjects: Art, Chinese--Ming-Ch'ing dynasties, 1368-1912, Art--Social aspects
...in Ming China. It had an extensive history, a canon both of artists and of published writing on those artists (China had been a print culture for at least...they would all have been married to women whose surnames are not recorded. So...
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The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction of China
Magazine article by William Hinton; Monthly Review, Vol. 50, July 1998
Subjects: Agriculture--Social aspects, China, Food industry--Social aspects, Land reform--China, Reconstruction (1914-1939)
...one of the great ironies of modern history, the vast liberating social equalization...compradore tendencies that can drag China back into the kind of neocolonial...most active, most dedicated men and women of the locality. If the dedication...
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AIDS Has Arrived in India and China
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...one of the greatest epidemics in the history of our species. The AIDS epidemic...countries in the world: India and China. With populations of 1 billion and...is now rising among married Indian women. A study from 1993 to 1996 found that...
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China at the Brink: Class Contradictions of "Market Socialism."
Magazine article by Robert Weil; Monthly Review, Vol. 46, January 1995
Subjects: China--Economic policy, Free enterprise--China, Mixed economy--China, Poverty--China, Social economics--China, Socioeconomics--China
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China: Behind the Silk Curtain
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Filmmaker Captures Castoffs of China
Newspaper article by Lijia Macleod, Calum Macleod; The Washington Times, January 19, 2001
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Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), January 14, 2000
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Clinton to Raise Abortion, Arrest Issues in China
Newspaper article by Paul Bedard; The Washington Times, June 11, 1998
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...an important part in our political history, Americans in general are unfamiliar...ancestors way of living. He expected the women of his household to submit to his...to her parents. The Japanese invade China and attack Pearl Harbor. Najin is...
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Thompson Keys 23-0 Run as U.S. Women Rout China
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 12, 2008
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...night. After the scoring run, the women never looked back. Bian Lan finally...around the rim before dropping in. China missed 12 straight shots and turned...worst loss to the U.S. in Olympic history, surpassing a 100-62 defeat in 2004...
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China
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CHINA Mandarin Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo central glorious peoples united country; i.e., peoples republic, officially Peoples...acute on the local level, where corrupt officials manipulate the process to protect themselves and limit citizens rights. History Origins and Early History The stone tools and fossils of Homo erectus found in N and central China are the earliest...
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...happened." In France, modern academic history began with Numa Denis Fustel de...formerly were largely ignored, such as women and minorities. The study of social...chronicles, annals, or archives. China In China by the middle of the Chou...
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Great Britain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...include iron ore, tin, limestone, salt, china clay, oil shale, gypsum, and lead...independence of those respective regions. History Until 1707, this section deals...the vote to agricultural laborers. (Women could not vote until 1918.) In the...
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...the Ashikaga Shoguns Japans early history is lost in legend. The divine design...under the strong cultural influence of China, then flourishing in the splendor...2006 proposal by Koizumi to allow women, and children through the maternal...
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