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The inner quarters: marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-

Year: c1993.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

FOREWORD, BY BONNIE SMITH

PREFACE

NOTES ON CONVENTIONS

THE BORDERS OF SUNG CHINA (960 - 1279)

INTRODUCTION

1. Separating the Sexes

2. Meanings of Marriage

3. Making a Match

4. Rites and Celebrations

5. Dowries

6. Upper-Class Wives as Inner Helpers

7. Women's Work Making Cloth

8. Husband-Wife Relations

9. Motherhood

10. Widowhood

11. Second Marriages

12. Concubines

13. Continuing the Family Through Women

14. Adultery, Incest, and Divorce

15. Reflections on Women, Marriage, and Change

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Title:

The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period Patricia Buckley Ebrey.

Author:

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-

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The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993.

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Subject Headings:

• Marriage -- China -- History
• Women -- China -- Social conditions
• China -- Social conditions -- 960-1644

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