MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 080122s2008 mduab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780742555303 (cloth : alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191207462
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050 00 $aHV6541.C45$bM86 2008
082 00 $a304.6/680951
100 1 $aMungello, David E.,$d1943-
245 10 $aDrowning girls in China :$bfemale infanticide since 1650 /$cD.E. Mungello.
260 $aLanham, Md. :$bRowman & Littlefield Publishers,$cc2008.
300 $axvi, 169 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 131-139) and index.
505 0 $aList of illustrations -- Maps -- China in the late Qing Dynasty -- Southern Jiangsu province -- Map of Shanghai in 1867 -- Preface -- Female infanticide -- Infanticide in world history -- Infanticide in China -- A subject or a sensibility? -- Female infanticide in nineteenth-century China -- Causes and forms of infanticide -- Buddhism and Daoism in popular morality literature -- Confucianism in popular morality literature -- Popular broadsheets and newspapers -- Official and literati efforts to combat infanticide -- Early official efforts to combat infanticide -- Early Qing literati efforts to assist abandoned children -- Literati foundling hospices -- Confucian arguments against female infanticide -- Nineteenth-century infant protection societies -- Infanticide deniers -- Denial in history -- Protestant missionary infanticide deniers -- Knowledgeable Protestant missionary observers -- The European cult of Chinese children -- Infanticide deniers in Europe -- The holy childhood and the cult of the child -- Creating a foreign island in China -- The Jesuit response to infanticide deniers -- Christian mission efforts to aid foundlings -- Seventeenth-century efforts to save exposed children -- Eighteenth-century Christian foundling hospices -- Catechists and Christian virgins -- Nineteenth-century Catholic efforts -- Female infanticide in modern China -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.
650 0 $aInfanticide$zChina$xHistory.