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This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics. He considers not only women’s experiences but also their emotional lives and the ideals they pursued. Drawing on a wide range of Western, Japanese, and Chinese primary and secondary sources—including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epitaphs—Hinsch makes an important period of Chinese women’s history accessible to Western readers.
Guizhou and the livelihoods approach to Zhongjia history -- Natural, human, and historical landscapes -- The consolidation of Qing rule -- Livelihood choices in the mid-eighteenth century -- The Nanlong uprising of 1797 -- A legacy of fragile hegemony.
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
As the saying goes, a fallen phoenix is no better than a chicken. She finally experienced it: her parents were killed and jailed, her boyfriend was jailed, her house was confiscated, her company had failed, and she had graduated from university was equivalent to losing her job. Could it be that God had opened another door for her, that only God would send one of them, the rich and handsome man who saved her, the world is unpredictable, there must be demons, whether the fake marriage contract in front of her is a conspiracy or an opportunity, only you can know!
Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking womens life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining womens own agency in gender construction. She argues that womens autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song womens life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called Song-Yuan-Ming transition from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.
Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi—revolutionary, landlord, politician, poet, journalist, educator, feminist, and early member of both the Communist and Nationalist parties. The search for Shen's killer details the contours of revolutionary change in different spatial contexts—metropolitan Shanghai, the provincial capital Hangzhou, and Shen's home village of Yaqian. Several interrelated themes emerge in this dramatic story of revolution: the nature of social identity, the role of social networks, the political import of place, and the centrality of process in historical explanation. It contributes significantly to a new understanding of Chinese revolutionary culture and the 1920s revolution in particular. But Blood Road remains at base a story of people linked in various relationships who were thrust, often without choice, into treacherous revolutionary currents that shaped, twisted, and destroyed their lives.
This book explores the core value of Gulangyu’s historical environment, using outstanding universal value and Sino-foreign cultural exchange as the framing aspects, based on the requirements for Gulangyu being recognized as a World Heritage Site. Using the existing historical buildings and sketches as prototypes, the book provides a scholarly discussion on China’s modern urban architecture and the ways in which its historical environment has been transformed, especially the reuse of design in its modern urban architecture, explored in six case studies on Gulangyu.