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Inside the World of the Eunuch : A Social History of the Emperor's Servants in Qing China /
The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the story of how a complicated and much-maligned group of people struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. Rulers of the Qing dyn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The other side of eunuch history
- The palace eunuch system
- Routes to the palace
- Unrobing the emasculated body
- Entering the emperor's realm
- The parallel world of the eunuch : eunuch society
- Running away from the palace
- Eunuch suicide : punishment, not compassion
- Authorized exits from the system : sick leave, retirement, discharge, and death
- Surviving the fall of the Qing : Chinese eunuchs post 1911
- Appendix 1 : Reign titles and dates of the Qing emperors
- Appendix 2 : Eunuch suicide regulations
- Appendix 3 : Eunuch temples
- Appendix 4 : Eunuch cemeteries