Description: Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks.
Brief description: Martin W. Huang is Professor of Chinese at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Negotiating Masculinities in Late Imperial China.
Review Quotes:
"This book is a welcome addition to the literature on mourning in late imperial China." -- Monumenta Serica
"...the works Huang describes offer us invaluable glimpses of the domestic lives of elite officials in late imperial China." -- CHOICE