Between Birth and Death

Name: Between Birth and Death
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804785983
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Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China

Autor: Michelle Tien King

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Stanford University Press

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Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists,...

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Autor

Michelle Tien King

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2014

Stránek

264

EAN

9780804785983

ISBN

0804785988

Enbook ID

04719328

Vydavatel

Stanford University Press

Hmotnost

499

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 20

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Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? "Between Birth and Death" locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.

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