The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period by Patricia Buckley Ebrey

The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

Patricia Buckley Ebrey

312 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in wome...

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