Collection of Overseas Chinese Studies Series - Women Series (Six Volumes)

Introduction The Song Dynasty examined in "Nei Wei" was a complicated and changing era. On the one hand, foot binding became popular, and scholars began to advocate that "starving to death is a small matter, but being unruly is a big deal"; on the other hand, commerce has developed unprecedentedly, and women's marriage and property rights have been further protected. In this pioneering work on the study of Chinese women's history overseas, the author shows us an extremely rich picture, and the life picture of women in the Song Dynasty is vividly presented to us: the difference between inside and outside, sacrifices and celebrations, arranging marriages, serving parents-in-law, raising offspring, internal competition for favor, observing festivals and remarrying... This shows that women's history is a dynamic history and a history full of multiple possibilities. From this, readers can not only understand the group portraits of women in the Song Dynasty from multiple angles and levels, but also grasp their choices and talents in the social changes during the historical turning point. "Gui Shu Teacher: The Culture of Talented Women in Jiangnan in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties" The huge socio-economic and cultural changes in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties promoted the prosperity of "talented women culture". Prominent among them are the rise of Fengqi, the emergence of a mass readership, renewed attention to emotion, the promotion of female education, the increase in women's travel opportunities and the redefinition of women's characteristics. The purpose of this book is to rewrite the discussion of traditional women's history based on the May 4th view of history. This book believes that the ladies from the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties were far from oppressed and voiceless. They created a colorful and meaningful way of cultural existence in the male-dominated Confucian system. The author reconstructs the social, emotional and intellectual world of these women through the intersection of Confucian ideal theory, life practice and female perspective. Through Women's Lives, this book proposes a new way of examining history, which is premised on a concrete understanding of how women lived. "Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in 20th-Century Shanghai" "Dangerous Pleasure" is a history of Shanghai's prostitution industry, but it is a historical work produced in the post-structuralist era. It benefited from the rich theoretical exploration, ideological dialogue and multiple perspectives in the second half of the 20th century. The author was especially influenced by Marxism, feminism and social issues. Influenced by the concept of "subordinate groups" in individual studies, poststructuralism, and postcolonial studies, "historical materials" and the "history" produced by oneself are regarded as dialogue, negotiation, memory, construction, and creative activities in an extremely vivid, complex, and open "process." "Dangerous Pleasure" is divided into five parts, with a total of 15 chapters. It discusses how the "prostitute" issue at various levels intertwined the rich semantic field of national consciousness, political power relations, commercial and economic interests, policies for strengthening the country, social reform, national psychology, desires and fears, social gender structure, etc. In the 100 years from the late Qing Dynasty to the early 1990s. It has become a very core symbol of Chinese politics, economy, history and spiritual culture. "Dangerous Pleasure" won the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for Writing in Women's History, the first time the Historical Society has given this award to an author writing about women's history outside the United States. ...........