Table of Contents

FOREWORD, BY BONNIE SMITH
PREFACE
NOTES ON CONVENTIONS
THE BORDERS OF SUNG CHINA (960-1279)
INTRODUCTION

I. Separating the Sexes
2. Meanings of Marriage
3. Making a Match
4. Rites and Celebrations
5. Dowries
6. Upper-Class Wives as Inner Helpers
7. Women's Work Making Cloth
8. Husband-Wife Relations
9. Motherhood
10. Widowhood
11. Second Marriages
12. Concubines
13. Continuing the Family Through Women
14. Adultery, Incest, and Divorce
15. Reflections on Women, Marriage, and Change

NOTES
SOURCES CITED
INDEX

About the Author

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China (1991).