The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period /

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In t...

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Egile nagusia: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
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Argitaratua: Berkeley : University of California Press [1993]
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1wxthm