Women in Ming China

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 in English to cover the broad sweep of gender relations during the Ming.

This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Ming Dynasty (13681644). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and virtues. He considers not only the lived world of women, but also delves into their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Drawing on a wide range of Western and Chinese primary and secondary sourcesincluding standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epitaphsHinsch makes an important period of Chinese womens history accessible to Western readers.

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