ISBN: 0742555305

This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were wor… Meer...

This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century when massive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe, China was unique in targeting girls almost exclusively. Yet despite its persistence for two thousand years, little has been published on a practice that is deeply sensitive within China and little understood by outsiders. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes and continuation of female infanticide since 1650 despite efforts by Confucian moralists, Buddhist teachings, government officials, and even imperial edicts to stop the practice. The arrival of Christian missionaries led to foreign involvement as well, with Catholic priests baptizing abandoned and dying infants in Nanjing and Beijing beginning in the early 1600s. Mission efforts peaked in the nineteenth century when the European-based Society of the Holy Childhood urged Catholic children to contribute their pennies to help neglected children in China. However, most of the infant victims were drowned at birth in the privacy of their homes, thereby escaping the scrutiny of the law and the public. Mungello brings this secretive practice to light with a nuanced and balanced analysis of the cultural, economic, and social causes of early history,science and math,social science,social sciences Science & Math, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated<

2008, ISBN: 9780742555303

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 169 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-07-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrations, maps, 0.9 kg, Soziologie, Sozialwisse… Meer...

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Gebundene Ausgabe, 169 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-07-28T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrations, maps, 0.9 kg, Soziologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Anthropologie, Genderstudies, Asien, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, China, Frauen in der Geschichte, Geschichte nach Themen, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008<