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Birth in Ancient China : A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2017

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Print version: Cook, Constance A : Birth in Ancient China : A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2017

978-1-4384-6712-2 ( : electronic bk.)

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LOC-SH: Childbirth-Social aspects-China-History-To 1500 ; Birth customs-China-History-To 1500 ; Human reproduction-Social aspects-China-History-To 1500 ; Metaphor-Social aspects-China-History-To 1500 ; Group identity-China-History-To 1500

"Contents" -- "Illustrations" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "Chapter 1. Words and Images" -- "Chu Ancestral Names and the Word for Birth" -- "A Lost Word for Birth" -- "Suggestive Images" -- "Chapter 2. Controlling Reproduction" -- "Zhou Fertility Prayers in Bronze Inscriptions" -- "A Warring States Prayer Preserved on Bamboo Strips" -- "Chapter 3. Mothers and Embryos" -- "Embryonic Transformation" -- "Chapter 4. Controlling the Pregnant Body" -- "Time and Divination" -- "Curses, Stars, and the Gendered Cosmos" -- "Sequestering" -- "A Question of Thorns" -- "Chapter 5. Divine Origins and Chu Genealogical History" -- "Gender-Bending" -- "Chapter 6. The Traumatic Births of Non-Zhou Ancestral Founders" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography