Crossing the gate : everyday lives of women in Song Fujian (960-1279) / Man Xu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xu, Man, 1979- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--History--To 1500.

Women.

Women--China--Fujian Sheng--History--To 1500.

Sex role--China--Fujian Sheng--History--To 1500.

Sex role.

Social classes--China--Fujian Sheng--History--To 1500.

Social classes.

Social change--China--Fujian Sheng--History--To 1500.

Social change.

History.

Fujian Sheng (China)--Social life and customs.

Fujian Sheng (China).

Fujian Sheng (China)--Social conditions.

China--History--Song dynasty, 960-1279.

China.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Song Dynasty (China).

China--Fujian Sheng.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 357 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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 women's 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 women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's 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 women's 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"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

I. Gates in and out of the Jia

House gate (men) and lane gate (lü)

Middle gate (zhong men)

Gate titles for mothers

II. Women on journeys

Vehicles

Traces

III. Women in local communities

Inner affairs (Nei Shi) and outer affairs (Wai Shi)

Women and household economy

IV. Women and local welfare

Women and public projects

Women and local governments

Women's participation in local administration

Women and governmental structures

Women and lawsuits

Women under the administration of local governments

Gender consideration in local governments public projects

V. Women and religion

Laywomen in Confucian eyes

Personal practices

Religious communication with relatives and outsiders

Religious excursions

Buddhist funeral

VI. Women and burial

Tomb structure: from single-chamber to multi-chamber

Joint burial: partition wall and passageway

From inner/outer to left/right

The problem of one man, many wives

Funerary accessories from seven multi-chamber tombs

Late Southern Song tombs

Mural tombs

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Xu, Man, 1979- Crossing the Gate.

ISBN:

9781438463216

1438463219

OCLC:

947816336

Publisher Number:

40026606373