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Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of

For centuries of Chinese history, polygamy and prostitution were closely linked practices that legitimized the 'polygynous male'. This title introduces a fresh

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspecti

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, j

This is the first published volume on a variety of sources for Chinese women's history. It is an attempt to explore overt and covert information on Chinese wome