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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)  - 37980 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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Women and Writing in Modern China
Book by Wendy Larson; Stanford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Chinese Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Chinese Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--China, Women--China--Social Conditions
...Nuzi aiguo Women love their...the fate of China and is determined...to modern China should be...Chinese-educated women writing early...nude in China has an illustrious history. As for the Way of women becoming kinswomen...
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Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China
Book by Margery Wolf; Stanford University Press, 1985
Subjects: Equality, Women--China--Economic Conditions, Women--China--Interviews, Women--China--Social Conditions
...back at least twenty-two centuries, China has an inheritance of well-worked...about the Three Obediences by which women were to be governed: as an unmarried...prosperous man. 2 The marital history of another young woman who talked...
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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
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The Cumberland Incident of 1928: Gender, Nationalism, and Social Change in American Mission Schools in China
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Subjects: Women--History
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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
...womens emancipation movement emerged in China. As young people joined the struggle...imperialism and traditional Chinese society, women in the 1919 May Fourth movement (also...that could be addressed include the history of their neighborhoods, employment...
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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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Subjects: AIDS (Disease) in women--Research, AIDS (Disease)--Forecasts, China--Health aspects, Epidemics--Forecasts, HIV infection--Forecasts, India--Health aspects
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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
...protections are available to them. As young women in a society dominated by old men...socialist system as it has existed in China, and having gone a long way toward...the recurring nightmare of Chinese history. A major concern at present for...
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China: Behind the Silk Curtain
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Subjects: China--Social policy, Chinese foreign relations--United States, Jiang Zemin--Social policy, United States, United States foreign relations--China
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Filmmaker Captures Castoffs of China
Newspaper article by Lijia Macleod, Calum Macleod; The Washington Times, January 19, 2001
...and interests have been shaped by the five-decade history of communist China. Born to a poor family in Baoji city, west Shaanxi...interviewed a couple who were serving prison sentences. The women knelt down and begged me to go to see their five young...
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HOW ONE CHILDLESS COUPLE'S LIVES HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED BY ADOPTING A LITTLE OVERSEAS ORPHAN; Our Bundle of Joy from China
Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), January 14, 2000
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Newspaper article by Paul Bedard; The Washington Times, June 11, 1998
Subjects: China, McCurry, Michael D.
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Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 14, 2007
...Couple Looking for a House to Hold Their China Cabinet Moved to Mount Prospect. Not...Janice. The more you delve into the history of Mount Prospect, the more you keep...hat. Thats the way its always been." History might have been different if Leo Floros...
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Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 6, 2008
Subjects: Olympic athletes, Restaurateurs
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China
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
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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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...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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Japan
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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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