Disgraceful Matters
Subtitle: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780520240339
Subjects: Social History; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; Chastity; History; Social conditions; History: World; China; Asia - China; Modern - 18th Century; History / General; Asia - General; Women's Studies - General; 1644-1912; Women
First sentence: In 1752, the eighteenth year of the Qianlong reign, a twenty-sui-old Miao woman named Wang Aguan, from a walled village in the Puan District of southwestern Guizhou Province, committed suicide after being sexually assaulted by her cousin, Wang Ali.