At Home In The World: Women And Charity In Late Qing And Early Republican China (Treasury Of The Indic Sciences)

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.

• | Author: Xia Shi
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 023118560X
• | ISBN-13: 9780231185608