True to Her Word

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The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China

Autor: Weijing Lu

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful ma...

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Autor

Weijing Lu

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

368

EAN

9780804758086

ISBN

0804758085

Enbook ID

04718403

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

617

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 25

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This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368-1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens" defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiance or to kill themselves to join their fiance in death. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behaviour, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.

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