Ebook: Women and the family in Chinese history
Author: Ebrey Patricia Buckley
- Tags: Women -- China -- History. Women -- China -- Social conditions. Women -- China -- Social life and customs. Families -- China -- History. Kinship -- China -- History. China -- Social life and customs. China -- Social conditions -- 960-1644. China -- Civilization -- 960-1644. Families. Kinship. Manners and cu
- Series: Critical Asian scholarship
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London, New York, Array, China
- Language: English
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Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender, and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. Topics range from dowries, the sale of women into concubinary, the excesses of the imperial harem, and footbinding.
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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. Read more...
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