Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China 9780824847920

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Practicing Scripture is an original and detailed history of one of the most successful religious movements of late imper

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Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China 9781503619623

Presenting a new approach to the history of Chinese kinship, this book attempts to bridge the gap between anthropologica

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Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China 9780824842024

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Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China 9780824863739

Why did traditional Chinese literati so often identify themselves with women in their writing? What can this tell us abo

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The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China 9780415648363

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Writing Women in Late Imperial China 9780804765916

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship ha

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Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China 9780231548731

Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion,

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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China 9780804764339

This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminaliz

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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China 9780804764339, 0804764336

This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminaliz

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