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This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system through bamboo manuscripts and inscriptions dating from the late pre-imperial China (5th-3rd centuries BCE). Diachronic and synchronic comparisons of graphic details show that none of the well-recognized regional varieties developed independently from one another. Furthermore, differences in graphic components can be accounted for as alternations of graphs that are compatible in their semantic or phonetic values. The phonological systems underlying various regional orthographies unanimously point to a single coherent sound system with some mixture of dialect pronunciations. This strongly suggests that all the late pre-imperial regional scripts derived from a kind of orthographic meta-system based on one spoken standard language. This orthography and its phonological systems should reasonably be dated to ca. 9th century BCE, just about the time when the earliest known Chinese lexicography "Book of Scribe Zhou" (ca. 830 BCE) was written. The conclusions of this book have further implications on reading and understanding manuscript texts in general as well as on using them as data for linguistic studies.

Chinese language --- Chinese characters --- Manuscripts --- History --- Phonology. --- History. --- China --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Pre-imperial China. --- bamboo manuscripts. --- orthography. --- writing culture.

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Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. Hsia shows how these missionary-scientists remade themselves as they negotiated the place of the profane sciences in a religious enterprise. Sojourners in a Strange Land

Science --- History. --- Jesuits --- Missions --- jesuits, science, scientific, missions, mission work, imperialism, imperial china, chinese, asia, history, missionaries, maps, clocks, astrolabes, myth, western sciences, religious studies, religion, genealogy, natural philosophy, mathematics, math, travelogue, collective biography, academic collection, society of jesus, catholic church, catholicism, christianity, christian, evangelization.

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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion-as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

Demonology --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- History. --- China --- Religion. --- afterlife. --- ancestors. --- ancient china. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese jia jiao. --- chinese religion. --- christianity. --- comparative religions. --- cult. --- death. --- deity. --- demon. --- demonic. --- demonology. --- demons. --- divine power. --- divinity. --- folk belief. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- ghosts. --- goblins. --- god of wealth. --- gods. --- greed. --- han cult. --- imperial china. --- lust. --- nonfiction. --- popular religion. --- possession. --- religion. --- religious culture. --- salvific religion. --- shanxiao. --- sin. --- spirit of the dead. --- spirituality. --- supernatural. --- vernacular religion. --- vice. --- wutong cult. --- wutong.

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Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity-such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence.

Chastity. --- Women --- Ethics --- Evangelical counsels --- Sexual abstinence --- Sexual ethics --- Social conditions. --- Religious aspects --- China --- Social conditions --- 18th century. --- adultery. --- chastity cult. --- chastity shrines. --- chastity. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese women. --- criminals. --- domestic violence. --- domesticity. --- female chastity. --- female sexuality. --- female virtue. --- femininity. --- feminist law. --- feminist theory. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- hagiography. --- imperial china. --- imperialism. --- innocent. --- justice system. --- laws. --- legal cases. --- legal system. --- politics. --- purity. --- qing. --- rape. --- sexual assault. --- sexual harassment. --- sexual morality. --- sexual virtue. --- suicide. --- widows. --- women and the law. --- women. --- womens studies.

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This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.

Childbirth --- Women's health services --- History. --- China --- Social life and customs --- 17th century. --- 18th century. --- 19th century. --- childbearing. --- childbirth. --- china. --- chinese culture. --- chinese history. --- conception. --- cultural history. --- dangers of childbirth. --- development of medicine. --- fuke. --- health issues. --- historical periods. --- historical perspective. --- ideological issues. --- late imperial china. --- late imperial medicine. --- medical writings. --- medicine. --- miscarriage. --- nonfiction. --- pregnancy. --- qing dynasty. --- reproductive diseases. --- women. --- womens bodies. --- womens issues. --- womens medicine.