Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times 9004083618, 9789004083615
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English Pages 172 [212] Year 1988
Table of contents :
frontmatter
illustration
acknowledgements
preface
glossary
1 Moral Indoctrination and imperial encouragement
2 Social, economic and demograpahic conditions
3 Sudden prevelence of the cult of female marital fidelity in the late ming period
4 regional differences in the occurrence of female self-immolation
5 scholar's frustration and roundabout way of emotional expression
6 emotional vulnerability of females
7 widespread nature of the cult of female marital fidelity in the ch'ing period
appendix-self-mutilating behvior of ko-ku
abbreviations
bibliography
list of chinese characters
