Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1From the Feat of Preservation to Moral Packaging -- 2The Xingling Ideal and the Innovative Reinscription of Female Experience -- 3Exploiting the Mid-Qing Conditions of Wifehood, Widowhood, a

In what ways did Qing gentry women’s concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment? With a

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