Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China

Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China 9780231548731

Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion,

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Writing Women in Late Imperial China 9780804765916

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship ha

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Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China 9780824863739

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us abo

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China 9780415648363

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The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China 9780824842024

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Women and Power in Imperial China 9781495170638

Women and Power in Imperial China focuses on the status and roles of women in China, especially those who had a signific

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Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire 9780822391982

By examining how Indians formulated notions of citizenship across the British empire from the late nineteenth century th

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Reproducing women: medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China 9780520260689, 9780520947610

"Uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the sp

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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China 9780520947610

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Foc

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