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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[1993]
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1wxthm |