Employing a wealth of detailed evidence,the author of the book portrays an ambitious picture of gender relations in the roughly five centuries from late-Tang to
While David Pankenier has since the early 1980s made outstanding contributions to the scholarship of ancient Chinese cosmology,astrology,and their politico-cult
This handsome book is a fascinating addition to the growing literature on the history of women and popular culture of republican Shanghai.Richly illustrated,it
It is generally held that a small number of great or aristocratic clans,flourishing from the third to the ninth century,disappeared from the received historical