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050		4	_aDS750.78 _b.M35 2016
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100	1		_aMcMahon, Keith, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCelestial women : _bimperial wives and concubines in China from Song to Qing / _cKeith McMahon.
264		1	_aLanham : _bRowman & Littlefield, _c2016.
300			_a1 online resource (313 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: After Wu Zetian -- Part 1. The Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 -- The Song dynasty -- The Jin and Yuan dynasties, 1115-1368 -- Part 2. The Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- From founder to 1505 -- Three intemperate rulers, 1506-1572 -- The last Ming emperors, 1573-1644 -- Conclusion: Giving reign to imperial will -- Part 3. The Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 -- The founding of the Qing, 1636-1722 -- From Yongzheng to Xianfeng (1722-1861) -- Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) -- Conclusion: The lack of good sons -- Conclusion to part 3 -- Appendix.
520	2		_a"This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor's relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women's participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor's relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China's transformation into a republic"--Provided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aEmperors' spouses _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aMistresses _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolygamy _xPolitical aspects _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aConcubinage _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aEmperors' spouses _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aMistresses _zChina _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen _xPolitical activity _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aSex role _zChina _xHistory.
651		0	_aChina _xPolitics and government _y960-1644.
651		0	_aChina _xPolitics and government _y1644-1912.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMcMahon, Keith. _tCelestial women : imperial wives and concubines in China from Song to Qing. _dLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 _z9781442255012
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4503407 _zClick to View
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