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Title Gender and Chinese history : transformative encounters / edited by Beverly Bossler
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
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Contents Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology; Chronology; Introduction. Beverly Bossler; Part One. Early Modern Evolutions; Chapter One. Les Noces chinoises: An Eighteenth-Century French Representation of a Chinese Wedding Procession / Ann Waltner; Chapter Two. The Control of Female Energies: Gender and Ethnicity on China's Southeast Coast / Guotong Li; Chapter Three. Collecting Masculinity: Merchants and Gender Performance in Eighteenth-Century China / Yulian Wu; Chapter Four. Writing Love: The Heming ji by Wang Zhaoyuan and Hao Yixing / Weijing Lu
Part Two. "Cloistered Ladies" to New WomenChapter Five. "Media-Savvy" Gentlewomen of the 1870s and Beyond / Ellen Widmer; Chapter Six. The Fate of the Late Imperial "Talented Woman": Gender and Historical Change in Early-Twentieth-Century China / Joan Judge; Chapter Seven. Moving to Shanghai: Urban Women of Means in the Late Qing / Yan Wang; Part Three. Radicalism and Ruptures; Chapter Eight. The Life of a Slogan / Emily Honig; Chapter Nine. Bad Transmission / Gail Hershatter; Glossary of Chinese Characters; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- China -- Social conditions
Women -- China -- History
Sex role -- China -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Sex role
Women
Women -- Social conditions
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bossler, Beverly Jo
ISBN 9780295806013
029580601X
1785397559
9781785397554