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  title info:
    title: Drowning girls in China
    sub title: female infanticide since 1650
  name:
    name part: Mungello, D. E. (David Emil)
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangsu province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early official efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Literati foundling hospices -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.
  note: D.E. Mungello.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-cc---
  subject:
    topic: Infanticide
    geographic: China
    topic: History
  classification: HV6541.C45 M86 2008
  classification: 304.6/680951
  identifier: 9780742555303 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0742555305 (cloth : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780742555310 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0742555313 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008002614
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 080122
    record change date: 20151109090325.0
    record identifier: in00002404184