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Author Bossler, Beverely

Title Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
Published Boston : BRILL, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (483 p.)
Series Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law Ser
Contents Intro -- Courtesans, Concubines,and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000-1400 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Culture, Politics, and Gender in the Northern Song -- 1. Courtesans and the Northern Song Elite -- 2. The Courtesan as Concubine -- 3. Prose, Politics, and Prodigies -- PART TWO: Markets, Mayhem, and Morality in the Southern Song -- 4. Performance Anxiety -- 5. Entertainers to Ancestors -- 6. Loss, Loyalty, and Local Leverage -- PART THREE: Conquerors and Culture in the Yuan -- 7. Exemplary Entertainers
8. Performers, Paramours, and Parents -- 9. Entertaining Exemplars -- Conclusion -- Reference Matter -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Courtesans -- China -- History -- To 1500
Man-woman relationships -- China -- History -- To 1500
Sex role -- China -- History -- To 1500
Wives -- China -- History -- To 1500
Concubinage -- China -- History -- To 1500
Women -- China -- Social conditions
Concubinage.
Courtesans.
Man-woman relationships.
Sex role.
Wives.
Women -- Social conditions.
China.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684170678
1684170672