Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
A Note on Textual Conventions
A Note on Dynasties and Reigns
Introduction

part one · The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity
Cult in Ritual,Law,and Statecraft

Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier

1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire

2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign

part two · Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy

Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way

3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen

4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority

5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy

part three · Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body,Mind,and Space

Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue

6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder

7. “Accommodating Sages”: Gender Separation in Social Practice

part four · “Being a Person”: Female Humiliation and Social Power

Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End

8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency

9. The Logic of Female Suicide

Epilogue

A Note on Archival Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Character List
Index

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