Women in Early Imperial China
ISBN: 9780742568235 | 0742568237
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 7/30/2010
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Recognized as the leading work in the field, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Now in a revised edition that incorporates the latest scholarship and theoretical approaches, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese to paint a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. Bret Hinsch's introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters explore women's roles from the multiple perspectives of k... MORE
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Context: Early Imperial China | p. 15 |
| Kinship | p. 15 |
| Wealth and Work | p. 61 |
| Law | p. 83 |
| Government | p. 97 |
| Learning | p. 117 |
| Ritual | p. 137 |
| Cosmology | p. 153 |
| Conclusion | p. 169 |
| Notes... MORE | p. 177 |
| Glossary of Chinese Terms | p. 215 |
| Bibliography | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 233 |
| About the Author | p. 239 |
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Bret Hinsch is professor in the Department of History, Foguang University, Taiwan.
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