True to her word : the faithful maiden cult in late Imperial China / Weijing Lu.
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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 347 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804786782
- 080478678X
- Single women -- China -- History
- Single women -- China -- Social conditions
- Young women -- China -- History
- Young women -- China -- Social conditions
- China -- Social life and customs
- Femmes seules -- Chine -- Histoire
- Femmes seules -- Chine -- Conditions sociales
- Jeunes femmes -- Chine -- Histoire
- Jeunes femmes -- Chine -- Conditions sociales
- Chine -- Mœurs et coutumes
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- HISTORY / Asia / China
- Manners and customs
- Single women
- Single women -- Social conditions
- Young women
- Young women -- Social conditions
- China
- Junge Frau
- Verlöbnis
- Treue
- Junge Frau Motiv
- Verlöbnis Motiv
- Treue Motiv
- China
- Geschichte 1368-1911
- 306.81/530951 22
- HQ1767 .L89 2008eb
- NW 8100
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) 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.
This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the 'faithful maiden' cult in late imperial China (1368-1911). These 'faithful maidens' chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death.
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