Women of the Conquest Dynasties
Gender and Identity in Liao and Jin China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19975970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Cooke Johnson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Women of the conquest dynasties (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834043.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W652095382 |
| ISBN | 9780824834043 |
| Open Library | OL24809074M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
China's historical women warriors hailed from the northeast (Manchuria) during the Liao (907–1125) and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties. They rode horseback astride, were good at hunting and shooting, and took part in military battles. Several led armies against the enemy Song state. This book represents a groundbreaking effort to survey the customs and lives of these women from the Kitan and Jurchen tribes who maintained their native traditions of horsemanship, militancy, and sexual independence while excelling in writing poetry and prose and earning praise for their Buddhist piety and Confucian ethics. Although much work has been devoted in the last few years to Chinese women of various periods, this book incorporates recent archaeological discoveries and information drawn from Liao and Jin paintings as well as literary sources and standard historical accounts. Conquest women combined agency and assertiveness drawn from steppe traditions with selected aspects of Chinese culture such as ethics and literacy. These confident and talented women were rarely submissive in matters of sexuality and spouse selection, but they were subject to the restrictions of marriage and the levirate if widowed. The women of the northeast stand in vivid contrast to their counterparts in the south, where female identity was molded by a millennia of Confucian ethics and women were increasingly sequestered in the home and constrained by concepts of virtue. The book provides new insights into the history of steppe patterns of feminine behavior and reveals new areas of comparative study
Adultery · Ancient history · Art · Human sexuality · Literature · Political science · Praise · Sociology · Virtue · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Gender Studies · History · Law · china · Manchuria · To 1500 · Women
Mapping a Stateless Nation
Outside In
Introduction, Part 1
Nomadic Mothers as Rulers in China
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire
Riders in the Tomb
Rewarding Female Commanders in Medieval China
A Sinicised Religion Under Foreign Rule
The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies
Humans and Dogs of Mountainous Inner Asia
The Writing and Rewriting of History
| Citations per year | 0.85 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |