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About this book
Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence.
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2005Print ISBN
9780520240339
Edition
1eBook ISBN
9780520930667
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Textual Conventions
- A Note on Dynasties and Reigns
- Introduction
- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft
- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy
- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space
- PART FOUR: “Being a Person”: Female Humiliation and Social Power
- Epilogue
- Notes
- A Note on Archival Sources
- Character List
- Bibliography
- Index
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