Women In Ming China

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538152973

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Women in Ming China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and virtues. He considers not only the lived world of women, but also delves into their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Drawing on a wide range of Western and Chinese primary and secondary sources—including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epitaphs—Hinsch makes an important period of Chinese women’s history accessible to Western readers.

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538166413

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Women in Qing China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics. He considers not only women’s experiences but also their emotional lives and the ideals they pursued. Drawing on a wide range of Western, Japanese, and Chinese primary and secondary sources—including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epitaphs—Hinsch makes an important period of Chinese women’s history accessible to Western readers.

Author : Esther Shu-shin Lee Yao
Publisher : Mesquite, Tex. : Ide House
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039429977

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Chinese Women, Past & Present by Esther Shu-shin Lee Yao Pdf

Author : Victoria Baldwin Cass
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0847693953

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Dangerous Women by Victoria Baldwin Cass Pdf

Grannies, geishas, warriors, mystics, recluses, and predators--these are the dangerous women of traditional China. In a culture that is resoundingly patriarchal, these women are a vivid counterpoint. Violating state-sponsored orthodoxies, the granny mocks and mimics, the geisha charms with her intellect, the warrior rules in icy superiority. Using new and freshly interpreted sources, the author leads us confidently into this surprising world, bolstering her text with color and black and white art of the period.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780765643162

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles Pdf

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and will form the only substantial information on women available in English. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names.

Author : Yi-Li Wu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947610

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Reproducing Women by Yi-Li Wu Pdf

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004190269

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The Inner Quarters and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) that have only recently been rediscovered.

Author : Leta Hong Fincher
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783607914

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Leftover Women by Leta Hong Fincher Pdf

‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’ The Guardian In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher exposes shocking levels of structural discrimination against women, and the broader damage this has caused to China’s economy, politics, and development.

Author : Florence Wheelock Ayscough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B68493

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Chinese Women, Yesterday & To-day by Florence Wheelock Ayscough Pdf

This book deals with the transformation of ancient into modern China as seen through women's eyes, and includes biographies of outstanding women who have hlped to bring about this change and who are typical of the old and new in China.--Provided by publisher.

Author : Paul Ropp,Paola Zamperini,Harriet Zurndorfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004483026

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Passionate Women by Paul Ropp,Paola Zamperini,Harriet Zurndorfer Pdf

This is a collection of original essays which focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. It is the first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the May Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China. The essays also reveal the world of tensions, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China. The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of relevant and important Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications related to female suicide in late imperial China.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317515616

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles Pdf

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

Author : Harriet Zurndorfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004490161

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Chinese Women in the Imperial Past by Harriet Zurndorfer Pdf

The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, history of medicine, and philosophy. Chinese Women in the Imperial Past can rightly be seen as connected with the new Brill journal NAN NÜ, Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China, which was founded to provide the scholarly community with a lasting forum in which the subject of Chinese women and gender can be dealt with in its own right.

Author : Ellen Widmer,Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804728720

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Writing Women in Late Imperial China by Ellen Widmer,Kang-i Sun Chang Pdf

Scholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900.

Author : Robin Yates
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047429661

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Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present by Robin Yates Pdf

This essential reference work is an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, and 100+ dissertations in all social science and humanities disciplines relating to women in China from earliest times to today.

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442255029

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Celestial Women by Keith McMahon Pdf

This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.