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At home in the world : women and charity in late Qing and early republican China / Xia Shi.
LIBRA HV541 .S55 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shi, Xia, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in charitable work--China--History.
- Women in charitable work.
- Women philanthropists--China--History.
- Women philanthropists.
- Women--China--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Charities.
- History.
- China.
- Social conditions.
- Sex role--China--History.
- Sex role.
- Charities--China--History.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Beyond a personal virtue
- Being female philanthropists
- Reaching out to women in the home
- Women interacting with the YWCA
- Redefining Confucian gender doctrines
- Women, superstition, and the reorientation toward charity
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shi, Xia, 1979- At home in the world.
- ISBN:
- 9780231185608
- 023118560X
- OCLC:
- 1004635991
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