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Inner Quarters Marriage & the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Inner Quarters Marriage & the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

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ISBN13: 9780520081581
ISBN10: 0520081587
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The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China brings to life what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines, to deciding what to do if widowed.

Focusing on marriage, Patricia Buckley Ebrey views family life from the perspective of women. She argues that the ideas, attitudes, and practices that constituted marriage shaped women's lives, providing the context in which they could interpret the opportunities open to them, negotiate their relationships with others, and accommodate or resist those around them.

Ebrey questions whether women's situations actually deteriorated in the Sung, linking their experiences to widespread social, political, economic, and cultural changes of this period. She draws from advice books, biographies, government documents, and medical treatises to show that although the family continued to be patrilineal and patriarchal, women found ways to exert their power and authority. No other book explores the history of women in pre-twentieth-century China with such energy and depth.

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"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."and#151;from the Foreword

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-219) and index.

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Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China (1991).

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ISBN:
9780520081581
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
12/01/1993
Publisher:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pages:
312
Height:
.79IN
Width:
5.93IN
Thickness:
1 in.
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1993
Series Volume:
9335
UPC Code:
2800520081583
Author:
Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Author:
Bonnie Smith
Author:
Patricia B. Ebrey
Subject:
Social conditions
Subject:
Women -- China -- Social conditions.
Subject:
China Social conditions 960-1644.
Subject:
Gender Studies-General

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