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Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China | Xia Shi
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2018 Columbia University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-231-54623-2
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In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of how married nonprofessional women without modern educations moved out of their sequestered domestic life, engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities, and repositioned themselves as public actors.
ShiXia: Xia Shi (P.h.D. University of California, Irvine) is an Assistant Professor of History and holds the Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at the New College of Florida. She has contributed to China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, ed. Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Rowman & Littlefeld, 2009) and published articles in Frontiers of History in China and The China Beat Blog.Xia Shi is assistant professor of history and Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at New College of Florida.
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In late Qing and early Republican China, new opportunities emerged for Chinese women. Xia Shi unearths the history of how married nonprofessional women without modern educations moved out of their sequestered domestic life, engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities, and repositioned themselves as public actors.
ShiXia: Xia Shi (P.h.D. University of California, Irvine) is an Assistant Professor of History and holds the Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at the New College of Florida. She has contributed to China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, ed. Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Rowman & Littlefeld, 2009) and published articles in Frontiers of History in China and The China Beat Blog.Xia Shi is assistant professor of history and Marian Hoppin Chair of Asian Studies at New College of Florida.
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Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet