Drowning girls in China :: female infanticide since 1650 /
This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century whenmassive numbers of children were still being a...
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| Summary: | This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century whenmassive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe, China was unique in targeting girls almost exclusively. Yet despite its persistence for two thousand years, little has been published on a practice that is deeply sensitive within China andlittle understood by outsiders. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustratio. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780742557321 0742557324 |
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| contents | List of illustrations -- Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangsu province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early official efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Literati foundling hospices -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. |
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| spelling | Mungello, D. E. (David Emil), 1943- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdrMptpxdPwx6cCdjRMyd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86132278 Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / D.E. Mungello. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008. 1 online resource (xvi, 169 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-139) and index. List of illustrations -- Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangsu province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early official efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Literati foundling hospices -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century whenmassive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe, China was unique in targeting girls almost exclusively. Yet despite its persistence for two thousand years, little has been published on a practice that is deeply sensitive within China andlittle understood by outsiders. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustratio. Infanticide China History. Infanticide history Infanticide Chine Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE Demography. bisacsh Infanticide fast China fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3 Kindestötung gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030652-5 Mädchen gnd China gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4009937-4 Kindestötung Mädchen China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb Mädchen Kindestötung China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb Geschichte 1650-2008. swd History fast Print version: Drowning girls in China. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008 9780742555303 (DLC) 2008002614 |
| spellingShingle | Mungello, D. E. (David Emil), 1943- Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / List of illustrations -- Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangsu province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early official efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Literati foundling hospices -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author. Infanticide China History. Infanticide history Infanticide Chine Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE Demography. bisacsh Infanticide fast Kindestötung gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030652-5 Mädchen gnd Kindestötung Mädchen China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb Mädchen Kindestötung China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb |
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| title | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / |
| title_auth | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / |
| title_exact_search | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / |
| title_full | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / D.E. Mungello. |
| title_fullStr | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / D.E. Mungello. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Drowning girls in China : female infanticide since 1650 / D.E. Mungello. |
| title_short | Drowning girls in China : |
| title_sort | drowning girls in china female infanticide since 1650 |
| title_sub | female infanticide since 1650 / |
| topic | Infanticide China History. Infanticide history Infanticide Chine Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE Demography. bisacsh Infanticide fast Kindestötung gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030652-5 Mädchen gnd Kindestötung Mädchen China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb Mädchen Kindestötung China Geschichte Neuzeit. idsbb |
| topic_facet | Infanticide China History. Infanticide history Infanticide Chine Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE Demography. Infanticide China Kindestötung Mädchen Kindestötung Mädchen China Geschichte Neuzeit. Mädchen Kindestötung China Geschichte Neuzeit. History |
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