Xia Shi: Concubines in Public | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781009724296 | Concubines in Public | Xia Shi | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026

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Beschreibung

Moving beyond familiar narratives of abolition, Xia Shi introduces the contentious public presence of concubines in Republican China. Drawing on a rich variety of historical sources, Shi highlights the shifting social and educational backgrounds of concubines, showing how some served as public companions of elite men in China and on the international stage from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. Shi also demonstrates how concubines' membership in progressive women's institutions was fiercely contested by China's early feminists, keen to liberate women from oppression, but uneasy about associating with women with such degraded social status. Bringing the largely forgotten stories of these women's lives to light, Shi argues for recognition of the pioneering roles concubines played as social wives and their impact on the development of gender politics and on the changing relationship between the domestic and the public for women during a transformative period of modern Chinese history.

Über den Autor

Xia Shi is Associate Professor of History and Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at New College of Florida.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction,1. The emergence of the social wife in late Qing diplomacy; 2. From courtesan to social wife; 3. From 'Female student' to concubine; 4. Excluding concubines: the politics of virtue and contamination; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009724296
ISBN-10:	1009724290
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Shi, Xia
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Xia Shi
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.03.2026
Gewicht:	0,337 kg