TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lu,Weijing
TI  - True to Her Word  : The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China 
SN  - 9780804758086
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Stanford, California 
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Society -- Sociology -- Women -- Imperial China
KW  - Society -- social Life and customs -- Women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Moral heroism and craving for extremes : the Ming period (13681644) -- Putting young heroines in the spotlight : the seventeenth century -- The state and the social webs of exaltation : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Dissuading the resolute : the families of faithful maidens -- Dying for an ideal : the choice of suicide -- A young life, a long journey : living as a faithful maiden -- Old rituals and new questions : the faithful maiden debate
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007037545.html
ER  -