Bettine Birge
Biographic Data
| ID | 5187940 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bettine Birge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bettine |
| FAMILY NAME | Birge |
| SIGNATURE | BIRGE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures & History, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender, Law and Conquest in East Asia under Mongol Rule, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
This chapter explores how considerations of private international law affected marriage and gender relations during the Mongol occupation of China, in the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368). I first address matters of jurisdiction and choice of law that arose in Yuan China and border areas when lawsuits involved non-Chinese. It demonstrates the willingness of Mongol Yuan officials to consider non-Chinese law in adjudication and how this process could be co…
Women and Gender under Mongol Rule
Gender relations on the Mongolian steppe were crucial to Mongol military successes and the rise of the world empire. Women’s labor within nomadic camps freed up men for wartime mobilization. Elite women were directly involved in policy decisions at the highest levels, and, like elite men, might control large armies and estates. Some were Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, and served as patrons of these religions for their nomadic followers and for c…
Women in Song and Yuan China by Bret Hinsch (review)
Reviewed by: Women in Song and Yuan China by Bret Hinsch Bettine Birge Bret Hinsch. Women in Song and Yuan China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226. $36 (paper); $120 (cloth). ISBN 978-1538171165 (paper); 978-1538144916 (cloth). This work is the most recent in Bret Hinsch’s admirable series on women in Chinese history, whose volumes now cover women from ancient times to the late imperial era. Similar to the others, it is a synthesis of …
The Rise of the Mongols
Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan
“How the Mongols Mattered
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Two important trends in the methodology of historical studies have greatly influenced Chinese history over the last twenty years and have opened up new dimensions in the study of the Chinese Middle Period (eighth through fourteenth centuries). These have been first, the turn to local history, and second, the growing inclination, under the influence of postmodern liter ary analysis, of approaching the content of texts as a matter of subjective dis…
Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368)
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960–1368)
This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during which women's property rights were steadily improving, and laws and practices affecting marriage and property were moving away from Confucian ideals, th…
Gender, Property, and Law in China
Bettine Birge, Departme nt of East Asian Language s and Cultures, Universi ty of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357. birge @ usc.edu I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for JESHO for detailed and cogent comments on this article. They greatly helped me improve this piece and have given me much insight for my future work. REVIEW ARTICLE GENDER, PROPERTY, AND LAW IN CHINA: A REVIEW ARTICLE BY BETTINE BIRGE* Kathryn B ERNHARDT . …
TWELVE. Chu Hsi and Women's Education
Gender, Property, and Law in China
Bettine Birge, Departme nt of East Asian Language s and Cultures, Universi ty of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357. birge @ usc.edu I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for JESHO for detailed and cogent comments on this article. They greatly helped me improve this piece and have given me much insight for my future work. REVIEW ARTICLE GENDER, PROPERTY, AND LAW IN CHINA: A REVIEW ARTICLE BY BETTINE BIRGE* Kathryn B ERNHARDT . …
TWELVE. Chu Hsi and Women's Education
Gender, Property, and Law in China
Bettine Birge, Departme nt of East Asian Language s and Cultures, Universi ty of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357. birge @ usc.edu I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for JESHO for detailed and cogent comments on this article. They greatly helped me improve this piece and have given me much insight for my future work. REVIEW ARTICLE GENDER, PROPERTY, AND LAW IN CHINA: A REVIEW ARTICLE BY BETTINE BIRGE* Kathryn B ERNHARDT . …
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960–1368)
This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during which women's property rights were steadily improving, and laws and practices affecting marriage and property were moving away from Confucian ideals, th…
Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368)
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Two important trends in the methodology of historical studies have greatly influenced Chinese history over the last twenty years and have opened up new dimensions in the study of the Chinese Middle Period (eighth through fourteenth centuries). These have been first, the turn to local history, and second, the growing inclination, under the influence of postmodern liter ary analysis, of approaching the content of texts as a matter of subjective dis…
Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan
“How the Mongols Mattered
Women and Gender under Mongol Rule
Gender relations on the Mongolian steppe were crucial to Mongol military successes and the rise of the world empire. Women’s labor within nomadic camps freed up men for wartime mobilization. Elite women were directly involved in policy decisions at the highest levels, and, like elite men, might control large armies and estates. Some were Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, and served as patrons of these religions for their nomadic followers and for c…
Women in Song and Yuan China by Bret Hinsch (review)
Reviewed by: Women in Song and Yuan China by Bret Hinsch Bettine Birge Bret Hinsch. Women in Song and Yuan China. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. Pp. 226. $36 (paper); $120 (cloth). ISBN 978-1538171165 (paper); 978-1538144916 (cloth). This work is the most recent in Bret Hinsch’s admirable series on women in Chinese history, whose volumes now cover women from ancient times to the late imperial era. Similar to the others, it is a synthesis of …
The Rise of the Mongols
Gender, Law and Conquest in East Asia under Mongol Rule, Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries
This chapter explores how considerations of private international law affected marriage and gender relations during the Mongol occupation of China, in the Yuan dynasty (1260–1368). I first address matters of jurisdiction and choice of law that arose in Yuan China and border areas when lawsuits involved non-Chinese. It demonstrates the willingness of Mongol Yuan officials to consider non-Chinese law in adjudication and how this process could be co…
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