Chinese Women in the Imperial Past : : New Perspectives.

• Superior document: Sinica Leidensia
• VerfasserIn: Zurndorfer, Harriet.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zurndorfer, Harriet Thelma,
• Place / Publishing House: Richmond : : BRILL,, 1999.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Sinica Leidensia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (420 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- "Introduction" -- "Male Fantasies and Female Realities: Chu Shu-chen and Chang Yu-niang and their Biographers" -- "The Ritual and Sexual Bodies of the Groom and the Bride in Ritual Manuals of the Sung Dynasty (Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries) -- "Women Practicing Medicine in Premodern China" -- "Blood and Statistics: Reconstructing the Population Dynamics of Late Imperial China from the Biographies of Virtuous Women in Local Gazetteers" -- "Women in the Life and Thought of Ch'en Ch'üeh: The Perspective of the Seventeenth Century" -- "Between Constraints and Opportunities: Widows, Witches, and Shrews in Eighteenth Century China" -- "Little Vimalakirti: Buddhism and Poetry in the Writings of Chiang Chu (1764-1804)" -- "Encouragement from the Opposite Gender: Male Scholars and Women's Publications in Ch'ing China, A Bibliographic Study" -- "Women in the Epistemological Strategy of Chinese Encyclopedia: Preliminary Observations from Some Sung, Ming, and Ch'ing Works" -- Index -- SINICA LEIDENSIA.