True to her word : the faithful maiden cult in late Imperial China / Weijing Lu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Weijing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single women--China--History.

Single women.

Single women--China--Social conditions.

Young women--China--History.

Young women.

Young women--China--Social conditions.

China--Social life and customs.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and the faithful maiden's own subjective point of view.

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Part One. History; 1. Moral Heroism and Craving for Extremes: The Ming Period (1368 -1644); 2. Putting Young Heroines in the Spotlight: The Seventeenth Century; 3. The State and the Social Webs of Exaltation: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Part Two. Choices; 4. Dissuading the Resolute: The Families of Faithful Maidens; 5. Dying for an Ideal: The Choice of Suicide; 6. A Young Life, a Long Journey: Living as a Faithful Maiden; Part Three. Ideology; 7. Old Rituals and New Questions: The Faithful Maiden Debate

ConclusionAppendix: Faithful Maidens Reported inQinding da Qing yitong zhi (Siku quanshu edition); Character List; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-333) and index.

ISBN:

9780804786782

080478678X

OCLC:

817894924