HSTAS 457, Winter 2007
Women in Chinese History to 1800

Week 4 Assignments

4/20

Confucian Paradigms and the Patrilineal Family System

Guisso, "Thunder Over the Late: The Five Classics and the Perception of Woman in Early China"

Goldin, Paul Rakita. 2002. The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, ch. 2, "Women and Sex Roles."

Inner Quarters, 45-60, 82-98, 114-130, 152-216

Article Reviews:

Martin-Liao, Tianchi. 1985. "Traditional Handbooks of Women's Education," in Women and Literature in China, ed. Anna Gerstlacher, Ruth Keen, Wolfgang Kubin, Margit Miosga, and Jenny Schon. Bochum: Studienverlag Brockmeyer

Sung, Marina. 1981. "The Chinese Lieh-nü Tradition" in R.L. Guisso and Stanley Johannesen, ed. Women in China. Youngstown, N.Y.: Philo.

Kelleher, Theresa. 1987. "Confucianism," in Women in World Religions, edited by Arvind Sharma. New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 135-59.

Hsiung, Ping-chen. 1994. "Constructed Emotions: The Bonds Between Mothers and Sons in Late Imperial China," Late Imperial China 15.1:87-177.

Waltner, Ann. 1995. "Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China." In Chinese Views on Childhood, ed. Anne Behnke Kinney. University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 193-217.



Book Reviews:

Raphals, Lisa Ann. 1998. Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. SUNY Press.

O'Hara, Albert Richard. 1971. The Position of Women in Early China. Taipei: Mei Ya.

Hinsch, Bret. 2002. Women in Early Imperial China. Rowman and Littlefield.

Tung, Jowen R. 2000. Fables for the Patriarchs: Gender Politics in Tang Discourse. Rowman and Littlefield.

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