Real Life in China at the Height of Empire : Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan.
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Real Life in China at the Height of Empire : Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan.
Author:
Pollard, David E.
ISBN:
9789629969585
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Contents:
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Quotations -- Skeleton Chronology -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Illustrations -- Part I. The Supernatural and the Curious -- 1. Spirits, Spectres and Demons -- 2. Ghosts -- 3. Hauntings -- 4. Foxes -- 5. Fortune-telling -- 6. Beyond Belief -- 7. Reincarnation -- 8. Curiosities -- 9. The Wild West -- Part II. The Official's Milieu -- 10. Officialdom -- 11. Legal Dilemmas and Disputes -- 12. Yamen Staff -- 13. Servants -- Part III. Family and Friends -- 14. Hearth and Home -- 15. Piety and Paragons -- 16. Love Pledged and Blighted -- 17. Friends and False Friends -- 18. Personal -- Part IV. A Mirror on Society -- 19. Dogma and Dogmatists -- 20. Morality -- 21. Pedants -- 22. Women -- 23. Homosexuality -- 24. Impersonation -- 25. Fraud -- 26. Merchants -- 27. Bandits, Brigands and Robbers -- 28. Physical Prowess -- 29. Jesuits in China.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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