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This article examines the chastity cult in China during the High Qing (c.1680â1830) era. It focuses on the physical characteristics and the cultural implications of chastity arches built in Huizhou (Anhui) during the eighteenth century. Using both written texts and evidence from extant arches, this article explores how these monumental objects served as a forum through which the ideology of female fidelity was constructed and perceived by different constituents including the Manchu court, wealthy Huizhou merchants, and resident commoners. These three groups had different attitudes toward the value of these chastity arches, and thus, this study reveals a dynamic and contradictory picture of how the chastity cult was contested and negotiated in the local community of Huizhou during the late imperial period.â©
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Mark Elvin, âFemale Virtue and the State,â Past and Present 104 (1984): 111â52; Susan Mann has also noted the expansion of the âchastity cultâ in the Qing. See her study âWidows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China,â Journal of Asian Studies 46.1 (1987): 37â56; also refer to Susan Mann, Precious Records: Women in Chinaâs Long Eighteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 23â26.
Fei Si-yen, âWriting for Justice: An Activist Beginning of the Cult of Female Chastity in Late Imperial China,â The Journal of Asian Studies, 71 (2012): 991â1012.
Janet Theiss, Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 26â27.
Mark Elliott, âManchu Widows and Ethnicity in Qing China,â Comparative Studies in Society and History (1999): 33â71; quotation on page 62.
Mark Elliott, âManchu Widows and Ethnicity in Qing China,â 62â66. Elliott has also noted that, âif, as Mann and others have persuasively argued, having Han women obey the dictates of a strict neo-Confucian loyalty was important for the dynastic image, the expansion of the same sort of values among banner women themselves was even better evidence of how far [they were] from their uncivilized roots.â Quoted on page 63.
Bruce Trigger, âMonumental Architecture: A Thermodynamic Explanation of Symbolic Behaviour,â World Archaeology, 22.2 (1990): 119â32; and see page 125.
In 1394, the Ming court declared that the moral deeds of filial sons and chaste widows should be recorded in the jing shan ting. Later in 1511, the court issued an edict particularly for the women who safeguarded their sexual purity from bandits through self-mutilation and suicide in Shanxi province. In order to memorialize their superior moral activities, the court decided to establish stone steles carved with these womenâs names, ages, and hometowns beside the jing shan ting. Finally in 1569, the Longqing éæ ¶ emperor (r. 1567â72) decreed that if a chaste widow lived until the age of 100, her household might be awarded the title of âchastity and longevityâ (zhenshou zhi men è²å£½ä¹é). See Shen Shixing and Zhao Yongxian, eds., Da Ming huidian, 79:9aâ11a.
For instance, in 1513, when the court revised the regulations concerning âpeople who were chaste, filial, and with other superior activitiesâ (jie xiao ji zhuoyi xingji ç¯åååç°è¡è·¡) from imperial families, it stated that the filial and chaste candidates might be rewarded, but that âthey were not allowed to petition for arch constructionâ (buxu zouqing jianli paifang ä¸è¨±å¥è«å»ºç«çå). This regulation was further revised in Wanliâs reign. In 1582, the moral candidates from imperial families could âbuild arches and receive a jingbiao awardâ (li fang jingbiao ç«åæè¡¨). Shen Shixing and Zhao Yongxian, eds., Da Ming huidian, 57: 31bâ32a.
For instance, in 1660, the Shunzhi emperor approved that the relatives of chaste widows from Guangxi province should receive arch construction funds. QDDQHDZL, 71: 6a. In 1672, the Kangxi emperor ordered that women who had committed suicide to avoid rape should receive the same award as chaste widows. The local officials, therefore, should give the womenâs families thirty taels of silver for arch construction. QDDQHDZL, 71: 7a.
Susan Mann, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 36.
Mann, Precious Records, 15; Bray, Technology and Gender, 54â55.
The contract appears in Wang Zhenzhong., âPaifang daole? Richu erzuoâ, 109.
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This article examines the chastity cult in China during the High Qing (c.1680â1830) era. It focuses on the physical characteristics and the cultural implications of chastity arches built in Huizhou (Anhui) during the eighteenth century. Using both written texts and evidence from extant arches, this article explores how these monumental objects served as a forum through which the ideology of female fidelity was constructed and perceived by different constituents including the Manchu court, wealthy Huizhou merchants, and resident commoners. These three groups had different attitudes toward the value of these chastity arches, and thus, this study reveals a dynamic and contradictory picture of how the chastity cult was contested and negotiated in the local community of Huizhou during the late imperial period.â©
| Insgesamt | Letzte 365 Tage | In den letzten 30 Tagen | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aufrufe von Kurzbeschreibungen | 1654 | 492 | 31 |
| Gesamttextansichten | 366 | 22 | 0 |
| PDF-Downloads | 390 | 54 | 0 |