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Bret Hinsch
Chinese Empresses highlights the stories of Chinese imperial women and how male authorities attempted to curb their power. It disputes the notion that Chinese empresses were simply hapless or powerless…
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This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of women in Ming China. Bret Hinsch draws on a wide array of Chinese sources to produce the most comprehensive…
This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of women in Ming China. Bret Hinsch draws on a wide array of Chinese sources in the first book published…
Filling a gap in Chinese history and gender studies, this text offers a sustained history of women in the early imperial era. The introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early…
Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic…
This distinctive and enlightening book explores development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. By linking tea…
This clear and accessible text provides a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the Qing Dynasty (10,200 BC-1911 AD).
This clear and accessible text provides a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period up to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each period-Neolithic, Shang…
This distinctive and enlightening book explores the development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. By linking…
This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the…
Surveying the history of women in China during the sixth through tenth centuries CE, this important study is the first book on the subject in English. Bret Hinsch provides rich…
This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in…
Surveying the history of women in China during the sixth through tenth centuries, this important study is the first book on the subject in English. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight…
This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). It explores the central aspects of female life in…
Drawing from dynastic histories, erotic novels, popular Buddhist tracts, love poetry, legal cases and joke books, Passions of the Cut Sleeve evokes the complex male homosexual tradition in China from…
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