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Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Textual Conventions

A Note on Dynasties and Reigns

Introduction

PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft

Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier

1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire

2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign

PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy

Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way

3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen

4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority

5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy

PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space

Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue

6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder

7. “Accommodating Sages”: Gender Separation in Social Practice

PART FOUR: “Being a Person”: Female Humiliation and Social Power

Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End

8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency

9. The Logic of Female Suicide

Epilogue

Notes

A Note on Archival Sources

Character List

Bibliography

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