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Chinese Outcasts : Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China / Anders Hansson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansson, Anders, author.
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ; 37.
- Sinica Leidensia Online, ISBN: 9789004498488.
- Sinica Leidensia ; 37
- Sinica Leidensia Online, ISBN: 9789004498488
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimicy.
- Liberty.
- Outcasts--Chi.
- Outcasts.
- Social classes--Chi.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1996.
- Summary:
- Outcasts and pariahs are known to exist in several Asian countries but have usually not been associated with traditional Chinese society. Chinese Outcasts shows that some Chinese were in fact treated as outcasts or semi-outcasts. They include the boat people of South China and certain less well-known groups in different regions, including the "musicians' households" and the "fallen people". The reasons for their inferior status and perceived impurity is examined, as well as the intent behind a series of imperial emancipation edicts in the 1720s and 30s. The edict provided an escape route from inferior legal status but failed to put a quick end to customary social discrimination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Chinese Outcasts : Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China.
- ISBN:
- 9789004487963
- 9789004105966
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004487963 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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