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The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
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Frontmatter
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FOREWORD, BY BONNIE SMITH (page ix)
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PREFACE (page xiii)
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NOTES ON CONVENTIONS (page xvii)
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THE BORDERS OF SUNG CHINA (960 - 1279) (page xix)
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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1. Separating the Sexes (page 21)
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2. Meanings of Marriage (page 45)
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3. Making a Match (page 61)
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4. Rites and Celebrations (page 82)
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5. Dowries (page 99)
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6. Upper-Class Wives as Inner Helpers (page 114)
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7. Women's Work Making Cloth (page 131)
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8. Husband-Wife Relations (page 152)
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9. Motherhood (page 172)
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10. Widowhood (page 188)
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11. Second Marriages (page 204)
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12. Concubines (page 217)
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13. Continuing the Family Through Women (page 235)
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14. Adultery, Incest, and Divorce (page 250)
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15. Reflections on Women, Marriage, and Change (page 261)
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NOTES (page 273)
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SOURCES CITED (page 293)
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INDEX (page 321)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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HJAS | 57.1 (June 1997): 229-261 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0073-0548%28199706%2957%3A1%3C229%3ATIQMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7 |
JAOS | 116.1 (Jan. 1996): 125-126 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0279%28199601%2F03%29116%3A1%3C125%3ATIQMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 |
AHR | 99.5 (Dec. 1994): 1735-1736 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199412%2999%3A5%3C1735%3ATIQMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X |
JAS | 53.2 (May 1994): 529-530 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9118%28199405%2953%3A2%3C529%3ATIQMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
Citable Link
Published: c1993
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520081581 (paper)
- 9780520081567 (hardcover)
- 9780520913486 (ebook)