Ebrey, Patricia Buckley <br/><br/>
Women and the family in Chinese history 
Patricia Buckley Ebrey 
 - London  New York  Routledge  2003 
 - ix, 291 p. 
 - Critical Asian scholarship .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-278) and index. 
<br/><br/>Women, money, and class: Sima Guang and Song Neo-Confucian views on women. -- Concubines in Song China. -- Shifts in marriage finance from the sixth to the thirteenth century. -- The women in Liu Kezhuang's family. -- The early stages in the development of descent group organization. -- Cremation in Song China. -- Surnames and Han Chinese identity. -- Rethinking the imperial harem: Why were there so many palace women? -- Gender and sinology: shifting Western interpretations of footbinding, 1300-1890. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415288223 9780415288231 0415288231 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Society -- Sociology -- Women -- Family<br/>Women<br/>Women<br/>Families<br/>Kinship