Passionate women female suicide in late imperial China
This work focuses on the causes, meanings and significance of female suicides in Ming and Qing China. The essays reveal the world of tension, conflicting demands and expectations, and a variety of means by which both women and men made moral sense of their lives in late imperial China.
History
156 p. 24 cm
9789004120181, 9004120181
1087783948
Reprint of the journal Nan nü : men, women and gender in early and imperial China, vol. 3, issue 1