Drowning girls in China
Subtitle: female infanticide since 1650
By: D.E. Mungello.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780742555303; 9780742555310
Subjects: Infanticide -- China -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maps; title: China in the late Qing Dynasty; title: Southern Jiangnan province; title: Map of Shanghai in 1867; title: List of illustrations; title: Preface; title: Female infanticide; title: Infanticide in world history; title: Infanticide in China; title: A subject or a sensibility?; title: Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China; title: Causes and forms of infanticide; title: Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature; title: Confucianism in popular morality literature; title: Popular broadsheets and newspapers; title: Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide; title: Early efforts to combat infanticide; title: Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children; title: Confucian arguments against female infanticide; title: Nineteenth-century infant protection societies; title: Infanticide deniers; title: Denial in history; title: Protestant missionary infanticide deniers; title: Knowledgeable protestant missionary observers; title: The European cult of Chinese children; title: Infanticide deniers in Europe; title: The holy childhood and the cult of the child; title: Creating a foreign island in China; title: The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers; title: Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings; title: Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children; title: Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices; title: Catechists and Christian virgins; title: Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts; title: Female infanticide in modern China; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Notes.