Drowning girls in China: female infanticide since 1650
Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangnan province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield Publ.
2008
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| En: | Año: 2008 |
| Acceso en línea: |
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| Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 20 A 3330 |
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| Sumario: | Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangnan province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-139) and index |
| Descripción Física: | XVI, 169 S., Ill., Kt., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-7425-5531-3 0-7425-5530-5 978-0-7425-5531-0 978-0-7425-5530-3 |
