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 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) |
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: | 0742555313 0742555305 9780742555310 9780742555303 |