True to her word
Subtitle: the faithful maiden cult in late imperial China
By: Weijing Lu.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780804758086
Subjects: Young women -- China -- History.; Young women -- China -- Social conditions.; Single women -- China -- History.; Single women -- China -- Social conditions.; China -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Moral heroism and craving for extremes : the Ming period (13681644); value: Putting young heroines in the spotlight : the seventeenth century; value: The state and the social webs of exaltation : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; value: Dissuading the resolute : the families of faithful maidens; value: Dying for an ideal : the choice of suicide; value: A young life, a long journey : living as a faithful maiden; value: Old rituals and new questions : the faithful maiden debate.