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Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times
Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 605–606.
Published: 01 August 1989
...Paul S. Ropp Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times . By T'ien Ju-k'ang . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1988 . xvi , 172 pp. $36.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 177–178.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Paul S. Ropp Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China . By Janet M. Theiss . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2004 . xv , 281 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 991–1012.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Siyen Fei Abstract This article examines the rise of the chastity cult—the quintessential symbol of patriarchal suppression of female agency for modern reformers—during the sixteenth century. Despite the resultant stricter control over female sexuality, the growing dominance of the chastity cult...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 37–56.
Published: 01 February 1987
...Susan Mann Abstract In 1934 Liu Jihua, a classically trained feminist at Yanjing University, published an article on the history of the concept of chastity in China. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with quotations from the classics (beginning with the Book of Changes ), her long...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1069–1091.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Kara Abramson Abstract This article examines the relationship between gender and Uyghur identity through the story of Nuzugum, the allegory of a Kashgar woman who kills an enemy outsider she is forced to marry rather than yield her chastity and bear his children. Tracing the story from its...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1973) 32 (2): 233–250.
Published: 01 February 1973
... the case. The chief source of such power was a woman's chastity {\arpu), a virtue as important then as it is now in South India. Pur. 198 6 See also Ain. 404. 7 For example, Ak. 16, 26, 66, 176. 8 E. Westermarck, A History of Human Mar- riage (3 volumes, Fifth Edition, London, 1921), vol. 3, p. 67...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (1): 57–70.
Published: 01 February 1987
..., fraternal affection, female chastity, obedience and respect for elders were given the official stamp of approval and disseminated via a variety of means government-funded schools, public lectures, and community drinking ceremonies. Conduct that conformed to these norms was publicly praised; conduct...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (1): 272–273.
Published: 01 February 2009
... studied the cult of widow chastity in Ming and Qing China. Weijing Lu has made an important contribution to that scholarship by focusing on the cult of the faithful maiden, those betrothed women whose fiancés died before marriage but who nevertheless maintained lifelong chastity or in some cases committed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 822–823.
Published: 01 August 2016
... histories on chastity, which explain how the neo-Confucian female virtue of chastity shaped a woman's legal relationship to her spouse and to the state, to explore how the twentieth-century moral and legal concept of monogamy forged a new relationship between state and society. According to Tran, monogamy...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 February 2006
... and authors names. On the other hand, Faure s preface is valuable for tracing the development of Strickmann s work and placing his oeuvre in the context of his life and general scholarship on Daoism and Buddhism. GIL RAZ Dartmouth College Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1051–1084.
Published: 01 November 2001
... Marriage and the Revival of Widow Chastity in Yuan China .” Asia Major 8 ( 2 ): 107 –6. Blake C. Fred . 1978 . “ Death and Abuse in Marriage Laments: The Curse of Chinese Brides .” Asian Folklore Studies 37 ( 1 ): 13 —33. Bray Francesca . 1997 . Technology and Gender: Fabrics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (3): 792–794.
Published: 01 August 2018
... nature of Manchu rule, consumer culture, lineage, and female chastity. Using salt merchants as an entry point, Wu aims to reveal a new network between Manchu court and Han Chinese, to analyze the merchants’ role in High Qing consumer society, to challenge the conventional understanding of literati...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 February 2001
... and 1990s, and Sommer exploits these new sources masterfully, showing us Qing dynasty legal reasoning at work, as well as the voices and strategies of those caught in the toils of the law. Two major Qing legal developments, namely the "rising priority of female chastity" (p. 67) and the new criminalization...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (1): 224–225.
Published: 01 February 2003
... by the confrontation between nomadic (Mongol) and sedentary (Chinese) societies. One major impact of this encounter with regard to gender and property laws lay in the congruence of Chinese resistance to the Mongol practice of levirate with Song Confucian ideals of widow chastity. Simply put, in order to avoid marriage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 908–909.
Published: 01 August 1971
..., the place of women and the roles played by them in the society, polygyny and prostitution, fine arts and education, dress and ornaments, etc. Under "Names of Women" the authoress has given some notes on etymology of certain names which are very fascinating. The Tamil society has been emphasizing chastity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (4): 907–908.
Published: 01 August 1971
... emphasizing chastity as the most important virtue of the women and Mrs. Nadarajah has very ably dealt with this aspect. Quoting profusely from Tol\a:ppinyam and other works she has shown that throughout Tamil literature \arpu (chastity) was considered to be indispensable for a family woman. "What could...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (3): 371–389.
Published: 01 May 1976
... out that this primary stress given to “chastity” reflected the Sung Neo-Confucian teachings of Chu Hsi, not those of Confucius, Mencius, and other earlier philosophers. 2 For a more complete discussion of such proverbs, and of pre-modern values in general, see Cong-Huyen-Ton-Nu-Thi Nh a Trang...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 601–602.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., political, and gender views, highlight the different experiences of temporality that each category embodies. Among the three themes, the discussion of virtue deserves special mention. It looks at how the four chronotypes dealt with the ideal of female chastity. While eternalists strictly adhered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 807–813.
Published: 01 May 1975
... of the polarities of chastity and eroticism: (i) Siva is full of lust and successfully seduces the wives of the sages; (2) Siva is chaste on both entering and leaving the Pine Forest; (3) Siva enters the Pine Forest chaste but succumbs to the wiles of the wives of the sages and is seduced himself; and, (4) Siva...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 150–152.
Published: 01 February 2024
... to a primarily feminine figure. The feminine Guanyin played particularly important roles for women in late imperial China, who both enjoyed more opportunities to follow artistic pursuits and faced increasing pressure to maintain their chastity. As Li shows, this meant that women often engaged in devotional...
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