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|aMungelloDavid E|d1943
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|aDrowning girls in China : |bfemale infanticide since 1650 / |cD.E. Mungello
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|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
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