Women and the Family in Chinese History

Bibliographic Data

ID19948024
AuthorsPatricia Ebrey, Patricia Buckley Ebrey (corresponding author)
Year2003
Publication date2003-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen and the Family in Chinese History (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203218211
OpenAlexW568815837
Open LibraryOL35541305M
ISBN9780203218211
LanguageEN
Citations received55

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale of women into forced concubinary, to the excesses of the imperial harem, excruciating pain of footbinding, and Confucian ideas of womanly virtue.Patricia Ebrey places these sociological analyses of women within the family in an historical context, analysing the development of the wider kinship system. Her work provides an overview of the early modern period, with a specific focus on the Song period (920-1276), a time of marked social and cultural change, and considered to be the beginning of the modern period in Chinese history.With its wide-ranging examination of issues relating to women and the family, this book will be essential reading to scholars of Chinese history and gender studies

Biology · Chinese family · Family history · Genealogy · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Genetics · History · Medicine · china · Family · Kinship · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Women