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True to her word : the faithful maiden cult in late Imperial China
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This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden's own subjective p...
This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden's own subjective point of view.
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- Creator
- Weijing Lu
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780804786782, 080478678X, 0804758085
- OCLC
- ocn817894924, on1224278674
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index.
- English
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Part One. History; 1. Moral Heroism and Craving for Extremes: The Ming Period (1368 -1644); 2. Putting Young Heroines in the Spotlight: The Seventeenth Century; 3. The State and the Social Webs of Exaltation: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Part Two. Choices; 4. Dissuading the Resolute: The Families of Faithful Maidens; 5. Dying for an Ideal: The Choice of Suicide; 6. A Young Life, a Long Journey: Living as a Faithful Maiden; Part Three. Ideology; 7. Old Rituals and New Questions: The Faithful Maiden Debate
- ConclusionAppendix: Faithful Maidens Reported inQinding da Qing yitong zhi (Siku quanshu edition); Character List; Notes; References; Index