True to Her Word The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China
Weijing Lu
- Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2008
- [8], 347 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moral heroism and craving for extremes : the Ming period (13681644) -- Putting young heroines in the spotlight : the seventeenth century -- The state and the social webs of exaltation : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Dissuading the resolute : the families of faithful maidens -- Dying for an ideal : the choice of suicide -- A young life, a long journey : living as a faithful maiden -- Old rituals and new questions : the faithful maiden debate.
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Society -- Sociology -- Women -- Imperial China Society -- social Life and customs -- Women
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