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At home in the world : women and charity in late Qing and early republican China
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At home in the world : women and charity in late Qing and early republican China / Xia Shi.
ISBN
9780231185608
023118560X
9780231546232
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
ix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Other formats
Online version: Shi, Xia, 1979- At home in the world. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 13, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Beyond a personal virtue
Being female philanthropists
Reaching out to women in the home
Women interacting with the YWCA
Redefining Confucian gender doctrines
Women, superstition, and the reorientation toward charity
Epilogue.
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