Patricia Ebrey

Women and the Family in Chinese History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in an historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415288231
• ISBN-10: 0415288231
• Artikelnr.: 20954708

Autorenporträt

Professor Buckley Ebrey is Professor of History and Chinese Studies at the University of Washington. She has published widely on Chinese history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Women, Money, and Class: Sima Guang and neo-Confucian views
on women 2. Concubines in Song China 3. Shifts in Marriage Finance: The
sixth through thirteenth centuries 4. The Women in Liu Kezhuang's Family 5.
The Early Stages of the Development of Descent Group Organization 6.
Cremation in Song China 7. Surnames and Han Chinese Identity 8. Rethinking
the Imperial Harem: Why were there so many women? 9. Gender and Sinology:
Shifts in Western interpretations of footbinding, 1300-1890