1. The Origins of Chinese Civilization: Neolithic Period to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Animal and Human Imagery in Bronze Vessels -- 2. Philosophical Foundations: The Eastern Zhou Period -- 3. The Creation of the Bureaucratic Empire: The Qin and Han Dynasties -- 4. Buddhism, Aristocracy, and Alien Rulers: The Age of Division. Early Buddhist Art -- 5. A Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty -- 6. Shifting South: The Song Dynasty. Landscape Painting -- 7. Alien Rule: The Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties. Drama and the Performing Arts -- 8. The Limits of Autocracy: The Ming Dynasty. The Kilns at Jingdezhen -- 9. Manchus and Imperialism: The Qing Dynasty. Working for a Living -- 10. Taking Action: The Early Twentieth Century. Modern Chinese Painting -- 11. Radical Reunification: The People's Republic.

The Classical period. The metal bound box -- Hexagrams -- Songs and poems -- The battle of Chin and Ch'u -- Confucius -- Chuang Tzu. The Han Dynasty. The debate on salt and iron -- Rules for visiting -- Social relations -- Two women -- The interaction of yin and yang -- Local cults -- Uprisings. The era of division and the T'ang dynasty. Ko Hung's autobiography -- Dedicatory colophons -- A woman's hundred years -- The examination system -- Household registration -- Slaves -- Family division. The Sung and Yuan dynasties. Book of rewards and punishments -- Precepts of the Perfect Truth Taoist sect -- Ancestral rites -- The shrew -- The problems of women -- Rules for the Fan lineage's charitable estate -- The attractions of the capital -- The mutual responsibility system -- On farming -- A schedule for learning -- Kuo Pi's diary. The Ming dynasty. Proclamations of the Hung-wu emperor.

Laws against theft and robbery -- Maxims for daily life -- The dragon boat race -- Village ordinances -- Routine commercial procedures -- What the weaver said -- Tenants -- Shi Chin, the nine-dragoned -- Merchants in the Ming -- Family instructions -- The spite of Lotus -- Li Chih's letters. The Ch'ing dynasty. Parables and ghost stories -- Proverbs about heaven -- Almanac -- Taxes and labor service -- Permanent property -- Lan Ting-yüan's casebook -- Exhortations on ceremony and deference -- Village organization -- The village headman and the new teacher -- Boat people -- Infant protection society -- Mid-century rebels -- The conditions and activities of workers -- Marriage contracts -- Genealogy rules -- Families and lineages of Yen-yüan county.

The early twentieth century. The movement against footbinding -- The new prefect -- Rural education -- The Shanghai Builders' Guild -- On freeing slave girls -- My old home -- The Hai-feng Peasant Association -- The dog-meat general -- The general strike -- Funeral processions -- My wife and child -- Birth customs -- The life of beggars -- Spring silkworms -- The orange grower and the old sailor. The People's Republic. Land reform -- Hu Feng's letters -- The state budget and the standard of living -- A new young man at the organization department -- Developing agricultural production -- The correct handling of love, marriage, and family problems -- The spring festival -- Lei Feng, Chairman Mao's good fighter -- Housing in Shanghai -- Red Guards -- My accusations -- The nature of diseases -- Modern models for family life and marriage -- Population control and the four modernizations.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ebrey-Chu Hsi's Family Rituals.pdf]

Early Confucian discourse on family rites -- Redesigning ancestral rites for a new elite in the eleventh century -- Combating heterodoxy and vulgarity in weddings and funerals -- Chu Hsi's authorship of the Family rituals -- Orthodoxy of Chu Hsi's Family rituals -- Revised versions of the Family rituals written during the Ming Dynasty -- Intellectuals' reevaluation of the Family rituals in the Ch'ing Dynasty -- Confucian texts and the performance of rituals.

Foreword / Bonnie Smith -- The Borders of Sung China (960-1279) -- 1. Separating the Sexes -- 2. Meanings of Marriage -- 3. Making a Match -- 4. Rites and Celebrations -- 5. Dowries -- 6. Upper-Class Wives as Inner Helpers -- 7. Women's Work Making Cloth -- 8. Husband-Wife Relations -- 9. Motherhood -- 10. Widowhood -- 11. Second Marriages -- 12. Concubines -- 13. Continuing the Family Through Women -- 14. Adultery, Incest, and Divorce -- 15. Reflections on Women, Marriage, and Change.

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China brings to life what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines, to deciding what to do if widowed. Focusing on marriage, Patricia Buckley Ebrey views family life from the perspective of women. She argues that the ideas, attitudes, and practices that constituted marriage shaped women's lives, providing the context in which they could interpret the opportunities open to them, negotiate their relationships with others, and accommodate or resist those around them. Ebrey questions whether women's situations actually deteriorated in the Sung, linking their experiences to widespread social, political, economic, and cultural changes of this period. She draws from advice books, biographies, government documents, and medical treatises to show that although the family continued to be patrilineal and patriarchal, women found ways to exert their power and authority. No other book explores the history of women in pre-twentieth-century China with such energy and depth.--OCLC note.
Another copy Gleeson library.

Contents: The religious and historical landscape / Peter N. Gregory and Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- The expansion of the Wen-Ch'ang cult / Terry F. Kleeman -- Gods on walls / Valerie Hansen -- The growth of purgatory / Stephen F. Teiser --Myth, ritual, and monastic practice in Sung Ch'an buddhism / T. Griffith Foulk -- The response of the Sung state to popular funeral practices / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Not by the seal of office alone / Judith Magee Boltz -- Channels of connection in Sung religion / Judith A. Berling -- Southern Sung academies as sacred places / Linda Walton.

Taoism and the arts of China / Stephen Little with Shawn Eichman ; with essays by Patricia Ebrey [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-405) and index.

Taoism and the arts of China / Stephen Little -- Taoism: the story of the way / Kristofer Schipper -- Taoist architecture / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Mapping early Taoist art: the visual culture of Wudoumi Dao / Wu Hung -- Taoism and art at the court of Song Huizong / Patricia Ebrey -- Catalogue of the exhibition. Part I : The formation of the Taoist tradition ; Laozi and the origins of Taoism ; Heaven and Earth : Taoist cosmology ; Sacred mountains and cults of the immortals ; Part II : The Taoist church ; The beginnings of religious Taoism ; Taoist ritual ; The Taoist pantheon ; Part III : The Taoist renaissance ; Taoism and popular religion ; Divine manifestations of Yin : goddesses and female saints ; Zhenwu, the perfected warrior ; Taoist immortals ; Inner alchemy and Its symbolism ; The sacred landscape -- Chinese names and terms.

"Taoism and the Arts of China brings together a collection of art from one of China's most ancient and influential traditions. Produced to accompany the first major exhibition ever organized on the Taoist philosophy and religion, this opulent book includes more than 150 works of art from as early as the late Zhou dynasty (5th-3rd century B.C.) to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Many of these works are paintings that show the breathtaking range of style and subject that makes the Taoist heritage so rich. Sculpture, calligraphy, rare books, textiles, and ritual objects are also represented." "Like the exhibition, the book is organized thematically. It begins with the sage Laozi, and moves on to explore the birth of religious Taoism and the interaction between Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. A wealth of subjects is covered: the gods of the Taoist pantheon, ritual, the boundaries and intersections between Taoism and popular religion, Taoist immortals and realized beings, the role of alchemy, sacred landscape and its significance, and Taoist temples and their architecture." "Taoism and the Arts of China includes a series of introductory essays by scholars with a deep understanding of their subjects. Among the topics are a historical introduction to Taoism, archaeological evidence for early Taoist art, and a general introduction to the functions of art in religious Taoism. Illustrated with over 230 color images, this volume affords a sweeping view of an artistic terrain that until now has received too little exposure in the West. Its publication constitutes a major advance in Western understanding of this important tradition."--Jacket.