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Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / D.E. Mungello.
Van Pelt Library HV6541.C45 M86 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mungello, D. E. (David Emil), 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infanticide--China--History.
- Infanticide.
- History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 169 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand years.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Maps
- China in the late Qing Dynasty
- Southern Jiangsu province
- Map of Shanghai in 1867
- Preface
- Female infanticide
- Infanticide in world history
- Infanticide in China
- A subject or a sensibility?
- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China
- Causes and forms of infanticide
- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature
- Confucianism in popular morality literature
- Popular broadsheets and newspapers
- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide
- Early official efforts to combat infanticide
- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children
- Literati foundling hospices
- Confucian arguments against female infanticide
- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies
- Infanticide deniers
- Denial in history
- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers
- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers
- The European cult of Chinese children
- Infanticide deniers in Europe
- The holy childhood and the cult of the child
- Creating a foreign island in China
- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers
- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings
- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children
- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices
- Catechists and Christian virgins
- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts
- Female infanticide in modern China
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742555303
- 0742555305
- 9780742555310
- 0742555313
- OCLC:
- 191207462
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