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Chinese women in the imperial past : new perspectives / edited by Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

Contributor(s): Zurndorfer, Harriet Thelma
Material type: TextTextSeries: Sinica Leidensia: v. 44.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 1999Description: xii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004110658 (cloth : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Women -- China -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 305.4/0951 LOC classification: HQ1767 | .C4525 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Male fantasies and female realities: Chu Shu-chen and Chang Yü-niang and their biographers / Wilt Idema -- Ritual and sexual bodies of the groom and the bride in ritual manuals of the Sung dynasty (eleventh through thirteenth centuries) / Christian de Pee -- Women practicing medicine in premodern China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- Blood and statistics: reconstructing the population dynamics of late imperial China from the biographies of virtuous women in local gazetteers / Mark Elvin -- Women in the life and thought of Ch'en Ch'üeh: the perspective of the seventeenth century / Anne T. Gerritsen -- Between constraints and opportunities: widows, witches, and shrews in eighteenth century China / Paola Paderni -- Little Vimalakirti: Buddhism and poetry in the writings of Chiang Chu (1764-1804) / Beata Grant -- Encouragement from the opposite gender: male scholars and women's publications in Ch'ing China, a bibliographic study / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- Women in the epistemological strategy of Chinese encyclopedia: preliminary observations from some Sung, Ming, and Ch'ing works / Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Volume is the result of a Leiden workshop on Women in Imperial China by a group of international scholars."--Dust jacket.

Male fantasies and female realities: Chu Shu-chen and Chang Yü-niang and their biographers / Wilt Idema -- Ritual and sexual bodies of the groom and the bride in ritual manuals of the Sung dynasty (eleventh through thirteenth centuries) / Christian de Pee -- Women practicing medicine in premodern China / Angela Ki Che Leung -- Blood and statistics: reconstructing the population dynamics of late imperial China from the biographies of virtuous women in local gazetteers / Mark Elvin -- Women in the life and thought of Ch'en Ch'üeh: the perspective of the seventeenth century / Anne T. Gerritsen -- Between constraints and opportunities: widows, witches, and shrews in eighteenth century China / Paola Paderni -- Little Vimalakirti: Buddhism and poetry in the writings of Chiang Chu (1764-1804) / Beata Grant -- Encouragement from the opposite gender: male scholars and women's publications in Ch'ing China, a bibliographic study / Clara Wing-chung Ho -- Women in the epistemological strategy of Chinese encyclopedia: preliminary observations from some Sung, Ming, and Ch'ing works / Harriet T. Zurndorfer.

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