List of illustrations
FIGURES
| 1.1 | Zhu Shouchang finally finding his concubine mother, left behind by his father | 20 |
| 1.2 | Exemplary widowed concubine who remains deferential to the wife even though she is the mother of the only son | 34 |
| 2.1 | Gou Zhun's concubine singing a song she composed to admonish him | 41 |
| 3.1 | Dai Liang succeeds in marrying out five daughters by making the dowries frugal | 63 |
| 3.2 | Sample of three documents the bride's family should send to the groom's | 73 |
| 4.1 | Genealogy of Liu Kezhuang's immediate family | 94 |
| 5.1 | Zhao Jiming's diagram of descent group burial | 117 |
| 5.2 | The Chen communal family, whose 700 members ate together, sitting according to age | 121 |
| 5.3 | Fan Zhongyan creating a charitable estate to supply his relatives | 131 |
| 6.1 | Urns holding cremated remains unearthed from Song-period tombs in Foshan City, Guangdong province | 150 |
| 6.2 | Diagram of a tomb dated 1266, with an urn with cremated remains buried in a small pit below an above-ground structure | 150 |
| 7.1 | Page from a late Song reference work listing surnames with their associated place names | 169 |
| 8.1 | Illustration from the seventeenth-century novel about Sui Yangdi (Sui Yangdi yanshi) | 179 |
| 8.2 | Song statues of serving women attending the Jade Emperor, at the Shrine of the Jade Emperor, Jincheng, Shanxi province | 183 |
| 8.3 | Illustration from chapter 21 of the novel Jin Ping Mei, showing the protagonist with several of his concubines and their maids | 191 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Women and the Family in Chinese History.
Contributors: Patricia Buckley Ebrey - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: vi.
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