This volume completes McMahonâ s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of empresses and imperial concubines as mere victims or playthings, this book considers them as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperorâ s relations with others.
This volume completes McMahonâ s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of empresses and imperial concubines as mere victims or playthings, this book considers them as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperorâ s relations with others.
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.
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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
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
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