Title Women and the family in Chinese history / Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2003, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations Series Critical Asian scholarship Critical Asian scholarship. Contents Women, money, and class: Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian views on women. -- Concubines in Song China. -- Shifts in marriage finance from the sixth to the thirteenth century. -- The women in Liu Kezhuang's family. -- The early stages in the development of descent group organization. -- Cremation in Song China. -- Surnames and Han Chinese identity. -- Rethinking the imperial harem: Why were there so many palace women? -- Gender and sinology: shifting Western interpretations of footbinding, 1300-1890 Summary 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 a historical context Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Women -- China -- History Women -- China -- Social conditions Women -- China -- Social life and customs Families -- China Kinship -- China -- History Families -- China -- History FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference. Families Kinship Manners and customs Women Women -- Social conditions Women -- Social life and customs SUBJECT China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186 Subject China Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002031601 ISBN 0203218213 9780203218211 9786610546893 6610546894 9780415288224 0415288223 9780415288231 0415288231 9781134442935 1134442939 9781134442881 1134442882 9781134442928 1134442920 1280546891 9781280546891

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