1(Pre‐Qin to Sui‐Tang:Classical China―The Formation of Patrilineal Society;Song to Ming‐Qing:Traditional China―The Strengthening of Gender Norms;Modern and Contemporary China―Changing Gender Order)2(The Household Register and the Family in Ancient China;Perceptions of 'Talented Women';Healthcare,the Body and Gender in Chinese Medicine;The History of Women's/Gender Studies and Feminism in China)"Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leading Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, literature, sociology, and law who examine the gender dynamics that have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand years. The eighteen chapters and six columns look at the ways gender norms and customary legal practices shaped the family, kinship, and the social order, and how those norms were reflected in work patterns, inheritance, daily life, and literary works. Attention is given to the fundamental principle of qi (material essence) as a building block in cosmology, as well as in legal understandings of family relations. The second part of
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