Chinese Women in the Imperial Past

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Chinese Women in the Imperial Past is written by Harriet Thelma Zurndorfer and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004110658 (ISBN 10) and 9789004110656 (ISBN 13).

The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, history of medicine, and philosophy. Chinese Women in the Imperial Past can rightly be seen as connected with the new Brill journal "NAN NU, Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China," which was founded to provide the scholarly community with a lasting forum in which the subject of Chinese women and gender can be dealt with in its own right.