ISBN10: 9004110658, ISBN13: 9789004110656, [publisher: Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands] Hardcover Cloth, xii, 408pp. As new in as new dustjacket. Still in publisher's original protective wrapper. The present volume is the result of a Leiden University workshop on women in imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and this book is one of the first efforts to focus on major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, history of medicine, and philosophy.
[La Charite sur Loire, France] [Publication Year: 1999]