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Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China.(Book review)
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The Historian
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June 22, 2006| Author:
Hammond, Kenneth J.
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Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China. By Janet M. Theiss. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 281. $49.95.)
The High Qing period in eighteenth-century China was an age in which the imperial state, ruled by the Manchu nobility and administered by an overwhelmingly Chinese bureaucracy, sought to extend and consolidate its control over and management of society. The dynamism of the Ming dynasty in the sixteen...
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