RT Book
T1 Drowning girls in China: female infanticide since 1650
A1 Mungello, David E. 1943-
LA English
PP Lanham, Md. u.a.
PB Rowman & Littlefield Publ.
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/562156321
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-139) and index
CN HV6541.C45
SN 0742555313
SN 0742555305
SN 9780742555310
SN 9780742555303
K1 Infanticide : China : History
K1 Infanticide : History : China
K1 China : Kindestötung : Mädchen : Geschichte 1650-2008