The inner quarters marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period /

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In t...

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Main Author: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 332 pages)
Series: ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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