Matthew H. Sommer

Broschiertes Buch

The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China

Beschreibung

This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.

Autor

Matthew H. Sommer is the Bowman Family Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (2000) and Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780231214131
• ISBN-10: 0231214138
• Artikelnr.: 69114558