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Disgraceful Matters : the Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity - such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines - in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first ful...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Theiss, Janet M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; A Note on Textual Conventions; A Note on Dynasties and Reigns; Introduction; Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier; 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire; 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign; Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way; 3. Enforcing Gender Order; 4. Divided Loyalties; 5. Adultery, Incest, and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy; Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue; 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing; 7. "Accommodating Sages" 
505 8 |a Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency; 9. The Logic of Female Suicide; Epilogue; Notes; A Note on Archival Sources; Character List; Bibliography; Index 
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