Women and the Family in Chinese History

by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

Book Overview

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change over time. The essays cover topics ranging from dowries and the sale of women into forced concubinary, to the excesses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0085P5FCK
• ISBN13: 9780415288231
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"