{"product_id":"crossing-the-gate-man-xu-9781438463209","title":"Crossing the Gate: Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChallenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women's life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called \"Song-Yuan-Ming transition\" from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Xu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438463200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438463209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Man Xu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439141138687,"sku":"9781438463209","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_09bd4cca-43a4-4bc8-8771-032adac6aff9.jpg?v=1777175704","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crossing-the-gate-man-xu-9781438463209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}