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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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"
- 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