ISBN:
9780804786782
,
080478678X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 347 p.)
,
ill., maps.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version True to her word
DDC:
306.81530951
Keywords:
Single women History
;
China
;
Single women Social conditions
;
China
;
Young women History
;
China
;
Young women Social conditions
;
China
;
Young women Social conditions
;
Young women History
;
Single women Social conditions
;
Single women History
;
Single women Social conditions
;
Young women History
;
Young women Social conditions
;
Single women History
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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HISTORY / Asia / China
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Manners and customs
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Single women
;
Single women ; Social conditions
;
Young women
;
Young women ; Social conditions
;
Junge Frau
;
Verlöbnis
;
Treue
;
Junge Frau
;
Verlöbnis
;
Treue
;
History
;
China Social life and customs
;
China
;
China Social life and customs
;
China Social life and customs
;
China
;
China
;
China
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the 'faithful maiden' cult in late imperial China (1368-1911). These 'faithful maidens' chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death
Description / Table of Contents:
Moral heroism and craving for extremes : the Ming period (13681644)Putting young heroines in the spotlight : the seventeenth century -- The state and the social webs of exaltation : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Dissuading the resolute : the families of faithful maidens -- Dying for an ideal : the choice of suicide -- A young life, a long journey : living as a faithful maiden -- Old rituals and new questions : the faithful maiden debate.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index
