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000763800 1001_ $$aBossler, Beverly Jo.
000763800 24510 $$aCourtesans, concubines, and the cult of female fidelity :$$bgender and social change in China, 1000-1400 /$$cBeverly Bossler.
000763800 260__ $$aCambridge :$$bHarvard University Asia Center,$$c©2013.
000763800 300__ $$aix, 464 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c23 cm.
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000763800 4901_ $$aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$$v83
000763800 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 433-456) and index.
000763800 5050_ $$aPart One. Culture, Politics, and Gender in the Northern Song. 1. Courtesans and the Northern Song elite ; 2. The courtesan as concubine ; 3. Prose, politics, and prodigies -- Part Two. Markets, Mayhem, and Morality in the Southern Song. 4. Performance anxiety ; 5. Entertainers to ancestors ; 6. Loss, loyalty, and local leverage -- Part Three. Conquerors and Culture in the Yuan. 7. Exemplary entertainers ; 8. Performers, paramours, and parents ; 9. Entertaining exemplars.
000763800 520__ $$aThis book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups -- and of male discourses about them -- transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture profoundly affected Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage and entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was in turn significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and the new markets in women it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced ritual recognition of concubine mothers and expressed increased concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the sometimes surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from its inception the drive to celebrate female loyalty stemmed from a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women -- and men's relationships with them -- seriously, Beverly Bossler demonstrates the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
000763800 650_0 $$aConcubinage$$zChina$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000763800 650_0 $$aCourtesans$$zChina$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000763800 650_0 $$aWives$$zChina$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000763800 650_0 $$aSex role$$zChina$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000763800 650_0 $$aMan-woman relationships$$zChina$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000763800 650_0 $$aWomen$$zChina$$xSocial conditions.
000763800 830_0 $$aHarvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;$$v83.
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