Women in Early Imperial China

by Bret Hinsch

Book Overview

Filling a conspicuous gap in the scholarship on both Chinese history and gender studies, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Drawing on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese, Bret Hinsch paints a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. His introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters explore women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742518728
• ISBN13: 9780742518728
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.0"