Drowning girls in China: female infanticide since 1650
"This book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand y...
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Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
Rowman & Littlefield
2008
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| Summary: | "This book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand years."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 169 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780742555303 0742555305 9780742555310 0742555313 |
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List of Illustrations vii
Maps xi
China in the Late Qing Dynasty
Southern Jiangsu Province
Map of Shanghai in 1867
Preface xv
1 Female Infanticide 1
Infanticide in World History 1
Infanticide in China 4
A Subject or a Sensibility? 7
2 Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China 9
Causes and Forms of Infanticide 9
Buddhism and Daoism in Popular Morality Literature 14
Confucianism in Popular Morality Literature 31
Popular Broadsheets and Newspapers 37
3 Official and Literati Efforts to Combat Infanticide 45
Early Official Efforts to Combat Infanticide 45
Early Qing Literati Efforts to Assist Abandoned Children 47
Literati Foundling Hospices 48
Confucian Arguments against Female Infanticide 52
Nineteenth-Century Infant Protection Societies 55
vi Contents
4 Infanticide Deniers 63
Denial in History 63
Protestant Missionary Infanticide Deniers 65
Knowledgeable Protestant Missionary Observers 70
5 The European Cult of Chinese Children 77
Infanticide Deniers in Europe 77
The Holy Childhood and the Cult of the Child 80
Creating a Foreign Island in China 89
The Jesuit Response to Infanticide Deniers 93
6 Christian Mission Efforts to Aid Foundlings 99
Seventeenth-Century Efforts to Save Exposed Children 99
Eighteenth-Century Christian Foundling Hospices 102
Catechists and Christian Virgins 107
Nineteenth-Century Catholic Efforts 111
7 Female Infanticide in Modern China 117
8 Conclusion 127
Bibliography 131
Notes 141
Index 157
About the Author 169
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Maps xi
China in the Late Qing Dynasty
Southern Jiangsu Province
Map of Shanghai in 1867
Preface xv
1 Female Infanticide 1
Infanticide in World History 1
Infanticide in China 4
A Subject or a Sensibility? 7
2 Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China 9
Causes and Forms of Infanticide 9
Buddhism and Daoism in Popular Morality Literature 14
Confucianism in Popular Morality Literature 31
Popular Broadsheets and Newspapers 37
3 Official and Literati Efforts to Combat Infanticide 45
Early Official Efforts to Combat Infanticide 45
Early Qing Literati Efforts to Assist Abandoned Children 47
Literati Foundling Hospices 48
Confucian Arguments against Female Infanticide 52
Nineteenth-Century Infant Protection Societies 55
vi Contents
4 Infanticide Deniers 63
Denial in History 63
Protestant Missionary Infanticide Deniers 65
Knowledgeable Protestant Missionary Observers 70
5 The European Cult of Chinese Children 77
Infanticide Deniers in Europe 77
The Holy Childhood and the Cult of the Child 80
Creating a Foreign Island in China 89
The Jesuit Response to Infanticide Deniers 93
6 Christian Mission Efforts to Aid Foundlings 99
Seventeenth-Century Efforts to Save Exposed Children 99
Eighteenth-Century Christian Foundling Hospices 102
Catechists and Christian Virgins 107
Nineteenth-Century Catholic Efforts 111
7 Female Infanticide in Modern China 117
8 Conclusion 127
Bibliography 131
Notes 141
Index 157
About the Author 169 |
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