Index
A
| “adopted sons” 52, 55, 109, 137–8, 240n, 241n | |
| adultery 44 | |
| agnatic kinship see descent group organization | |
| All Souls' Feast 112, 113 | |
| Amherst, Lord 198 | |
| ancestors: | |
| ancestor worship see ancestral rites; | |
| and Han Chinese identity 171–3 | |
| ancestral halls 134, 138–41, 142 | |
| ancestral rites: | |
| agnatic kinship activities 5, 107–43, 161; | |
| altars 111, 128, 235n; | |
| assemblies at graves 113–14, 115, 134, 139–40; | |
| grave worship 5, 111–19, 128, 142, 154–5; | |
| mourning obligations 42–4, 102, 109; | |
| and number patterns 136, 239n; | |
| portrait use 9; | |
| role of women 30–1; | |
| status of concubines 40, 42–4, 60; | |
| see also ghosts | |
| Anderson, Benedict 174–5 | |
| anecdotes 46, 225–6n | |
| anthropology: | |
| focus on kinship systems 1–2 | |
| aristocracy: | |
| agnate kinship groups 110; | |
| marriage finance of 64–8, 71, 80–1, 82, 87; | |
| marriage into and within 66–8, 87 | |
| arranged marriages 7, 40 |
B
| Ba people and names 168 | |
| Bai Juyi (772–846) 230n, 243n | |
| Ban Gu 189–90 | |
| Ban Zhao 29, 33, 222n | |
| Barrow, John 200, 211–12, 250n | |
| Baudier, Michael 208 | |
| Bell, John 204 | |
| betrothal ceremony 234n | |
| betrothal gifts 62, 64–6, 68–9, 71, 72, 79, 82, 230n; | |
| contents of 65; | |
| as indirect dowry 80, 83, 87, 228n; | |
| and inheritance law 74; | |
| limits on 65, 66; | |
| see also dowries | |
| bi39, 45; | |
| see also maids | |
| biographies of women 68, 90 | |
| biqie45 | |
| Birge, Bettine 220n, 222n | |
| Blue Waterside Academy 33 | |
| Bodhisattva: | |
| bones of 151, 243–4n; | |
| self-immolation 245n | |
| bondservants 51–2, 60; | |
| see also maids | |
| bones 144, 151, 152–6, 157, 243–4n | |
| Bray, Francesca 192 | |
| brokers of concubines 47, 48, 49–50 | |
| Buddhism 192; | |
| burial practice acceptable to 152, 243n; | |
| and change to cremation 5, 144, 145–6, 151–7, 163, 243n, 244n, 245n; | |
| coexistence with indigenous beliefs 8, 113, 146, 163, 235n; | |
| family ethics 12; | |
| festivals for grave visiting 112, 113; | |
| impact on kinship systems 9; | |
| in Liu Kezhuang's family 96, 98, 100, 101; | |
| and management of funerary arrangements 5, 8, 9, 151, 154, 156, 161, 164, 246n; | |
| monasteries as model for charitable estates 130; | |
| neo-Confucian opposition to 8–9, 112–13, 158–9, 161 | |
| burial custom 5, 8; | |
| by genealogical arrangement 115, 116, 117illus, 118, 236n; | |
| and concubine mothers 55; | |
| of cremated remains 144, 148–9, 150illus, 151, 155, 157, 160, 243n; | |
| delay before burial 146, 152–3, 154, 156, 163, 244n; | |
| delaying decay of body 145, 153, 155; | |
| double burial |
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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: 279.
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