Women and the family in Chinese history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:	Critical Asian scholarship.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.