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Auteur(s) : King, Michelle Tien
Titre(s) : Between birth and death [Texte imprimé] : female infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China / Michelle T. King
Publication : Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (250 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Deciding a child's fate : women and birth ; Reforming customs : scholars and morality
; Seeing bodies : experts and evidence ; Saving souls : missionaries and redemption
; Reframing female infanticide : the emerging nation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index
This text locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide
during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed
from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural
marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and
political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English
primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting
the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter:
a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese
philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological
experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic
missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children,
and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an
emerging nation
Sujet(s) : Infanticide -- Chine -- 19e siècle
Femmes -- Chine -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780804785983 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0804785988 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780804788939 (erroné) (electronics)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43768530k
Notice n° :
FRBNF43768530
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