The Inner Quarters. Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1993. Reprint. Maps, black and white illustrations, 332pp, bibliography, index, very good in paperback. A portrait of life for women during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD), which records how they served their parents, reared their children and coped with husbands and in-laws. Although the custom..... More