Drowning Girls in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drowning Girls in China write by David E. Mungello. This book was released on 2008. Drowning Girls in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand years.
Between Birth and Death
Between Birth and Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Birth and Death write by Michelle King. This book was released on 2014-01-08. Between Birth and Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.
Drowning Daughters
Drowning Daughters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Drowning Daughters write by Michelle Tien King. This book was released on 2007. Drowning Daughters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study historicizes the practice of female infanticide in China, comparing writings from Chinese and Western observers in the late nineteenth century. It is centered on the Jiangnan region in the period before and after the Taiping Rebellion [1851-64]. While female infanticide was an object of cultural authority for Western commentators of the time, who bolstered competing claims of expert knowledge on the subject of China writ large, it was an object of moral authority for Chinese writers, for whom it stood as but one of many social behaviors inscribed into a system of cosmic rewards and retributions. By the early twentieth century, the preeminence of moral authority in the Chinese context gave way to scientific authority, as the discourse against infanticide was rewritten into a new context of population science, eugenics, and women's rights.
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies
Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies write by Shanshan Du. This book was released on 2013-03-04. Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning women’s conditions and gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often inaccurately or erroneously associated with the whole gendered heritage of China, epitomized by the infamous traditions of footbinding and female-infanticide. Such academic and popular predisposition belies the fact that gender systems in China span a wide spectrum, ranging from extreme Han patriarchy to Lahu gender-egalitarianism. The authors contributing to this book have collectively initiated a systematic effort to bridge the gap between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. By achieving a quantitative balance between articles on the Han majority and those on ethnic minorities, this book transcends the ghettoization of ethnic minorities in the studies of Chinese women and gender. The eleven chapters of this volume are divided into three sections which jointly challenge the traditions and norms of Han patriarchy from various perspectives. The first section focuses on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han patriarchal norms from a broad perspective. This book complements previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of the multi-ethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefront the diverse gender systems of ethnic minorities, this book encourages an increasing awareness of, and sensitivity to the cross-cultural diversity of gendered China both in academia and beyond.
Encountering China
Encountering China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encountering China write by Rachana Sachdev. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Encountering China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices. Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not just as occasional sources of historical information but as primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the external gaze – European sources about China – contributors also tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical texts and European ones.
