Janet M. Theiss. Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)

From: China Review International | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Hegel, Robert E. | Copyright information

Janet M. Theiss. Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004. xv, 281 pp. Hardcover $49.95, ISBN 0-520-24033-2.

Even though in this book she addresses a topic that has been relatively well studied in recent years--the political emphasis on female chastity during the Qing period (1644-1911)--Janet Theiss (Associate Professor of History, University of Utah) significantly complica...

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