Celestial Women
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4422-5501-2 (ISBN)
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This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.
Keith McMahon is professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Kansas. His books include Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao and The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China.
Preface
List of Illustrations
Prologue: After Wu Zetian
Royal Courts, Polygamy, and the Women’s Quarters
The Polyandrous Empress
From the Song to the Qing, the Last One Thousand Years
Women Rulers in Other Parts of Eurasia, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Part 1: The Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties, 960–1368
Chapter 1: The Song Dynasty
No Calamitous Women
Trends in Masculinity and Femininity in the Song
The Six Bureaus of the Women’s Service Organization and the Titles of Consorts
The Northern Song, 960–1127
The Legend of Lady Huarui, Who Tried to Poison Taizu
A Different Way of Recording Wives
The Rise of Empress Dowager Liu, Former Entertainer
The Curtained Divide
A Hidden Mother
An Empress Deposed for Fighting with a Consort
An Heir Apparent Who Tried to Run Away and an Empress-regent Who Refused to Step Down
Great Empress Dowager Gao, “a Yao and Shun among Women”
In Twenty Years of Marriage, the Emperor and Empress Never Had a Fight
A Deposed Empress Becomes a Heroine during the F
| Sprache | englisch |
|---|---|
| Maße | 158 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 549 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4422-5501-3 / 1442255013 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-5501-2 / 9781442255012 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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