Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity / / Beverely Bossler
This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups -- and of male discourses about them -- transform...
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| Superior document: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 83 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2013. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 464 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Culture, Politics, and Gender in the Northern Song. 1. Courtesans and the Northern Song elite ; 2. The courtesan as concubine ; 3. Prose, politics, and prodigies
- Part Two. Markets, Mayhem, and Morality in the Southern Song. 4. Performance anxiety ; 5. Entertainers to ancestors ; 6. Loss, loyalty, and local leverage
- Part Three. Conquerors and Culture in the Yuan. 7. Exemplary entertainers ; 8. Performers, paramours, and parents ; 9. Entertaining exemplars.