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Download or read book Concubine of Wealth written by Bing Shan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been adapted into comic:Concubine of WealthShe used to be a sweet daughter in a noble family, but her family went wrong. In order to save her family, she signed a contract with a man who was cruel to others in rumors, which stipulated that he was supposed to save her family and she was requried to be his personal maid.Originally living the life of a noble daughter, but now she has to serve others carefully. He tried every means to torture her, while at the same time giving her enough tenderness and consideration. She wondered: did he do this in revenge on her family? After all, her parents had hurt him. But why did she feel she had fallen in love with him?☆About the Author☆Bing Shan, a well-known online novelist, has authored seven novels, most of which are urban romance types. Most of her novels describe delicate feelings and girls who are not convinced, and they are loved by readers.
Book Synopsis Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society by : Rubie S. Watson
Download or read book Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society written by Rubie S. Watson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, political, economic, and gender inequalities that have so characterized Chinese society.
Book Synopsis Women in Early Medieval China by : Bret Hinsch
Download or read book Women in Early Medieval China written by Bret Hinsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.
Book Synopsis The Making of a New Rural Order in South China by : Joseph P. McDermott
Download or read book The Making of a New Rural Order in South China written by Joseph P. McDermott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark study of the long-term dynamics of Chinese village history proposing a new framework for understanding pre-modern economies in Asia.
Book Synopsis Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by : Anise K. Strong
Download or read book Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World written by Anise K. Strong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From streetwalkers in the Roman Forum to imperial concubines, Roman prostitutes defined what it meant to be a 'bad girl'.
Book Synopsis The King's Concubine by : Anne O'Brien
Download or read book The King's Concubine written by Anne O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child born in the plague year of 1348, abandoned and raised within the oppressive walls of a convent, Alice Perrers refused to take the veil, convinced that a greater destiny awaited her. Ambitious and quick witted, she rose above her obscure beginnings to become the infamous mistress of Edward III. But always, essentially, she was alone... Early in Alice’s life, a chance meeting with royalty changes everything: Kindly Queen Philippa, deeply in love with her husband but gravely ill, chooses Alice as a lady-in-waiting. Under the queen’s watchful eye, Alice dares to speak her mind. She demands to be taken seriously. She even flirts with the dynamic, much older king. But she is torn when her vibrant spirit captures his interest...and leads her to a betrayal she never intended. In Edward’s private chambers, Alice discovers the pleasures and paradoxes of her position. She is the queen’s confidante and the king’s lover, yet she can rely only on herself. It is a divided role she was destined to play, and she vows to play it until the bitter end. Even as she is swept up in Edward’s lavish and magnificent court, amassing wealth and influence for herself, becoming an enemy of his power-hungry son John of Gaunt, and a sparring partner to resourceful diplomat William de Windsor, she anticipates the day when the political winds will turn against her. For when her detractors voice their hatred,and accusations of treason swirl around her,threatening to destroy everything she has achieved, who will stand by Alice then? Includes a readers guide
Book Synopsis Women in Song and Yuan China by : Bret Hinsch
Download or read book Women in Song and Yuan China written by Bret Hinsch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era―political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions―and considers why the status of women declined during this period.
Download or read book The Last Concubine written by Catt Ford and published by Dreamspinner Press LLC. This book was released on 2012-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Princess Lan'xiu's brother delivers her under duress into General H i Wei's harem as a political offering, her only question is how soon her secret will be discovered. She is under no illusions: when the general discovers she is actually a he, death is his only future--though he doesn't plan to make it easy. Lan'xiu has dressed as a woman all his life, but he is no damsel in distress. He can swing a sword with the best of them. General H i Wei has everything a man could want: power, wealth, success on the battlefield, and a harem of concubines. At first, he regards Lan'xiu with suspicion, but he finds himself strangely drawn to her. When he discovers the beautiful young woman is actually a man, his first reaction is to draw his sword. Rather than waste such beauty, he decides to enjoy the spirited Lan'xiu's submission--and ignites a passion and desire deeper than anything he's felt with other wives. But court intrigue, political ambitions, and the general's doubts may be too much for their love to overcome.
Download or read book Journal of Women's History written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hardship and Deliverance in the Islamic Tradition by : Nouha Khalifa
Download or read book Hardship and Deliverance in the Islamic Tradition written by Nouha Khalifa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Tanuki was a judge who was born in Basra and lived in Baghdad during the tenth century CE. During his life, he wrote three books which compiled poetry, stories, anecdotes and hadith. In this introduction to al-Tanuki's works and thought, Nouha Khalifa identifies the central theme of hardship and deliverance within wider narratives about love, generosity and the journey. Al-Tanuki was principally concerned with how humankind can alleviate hardship and suffering in life and achieve deliverance. His unshakable conviction in the necessity of deliverance was rooted in his Mu'tazilite doctrine, an early school of Sunni Islamic theology which sought to ground Islamic tenets in reason, and which drew upon different aspects of early Islamic philosophy, Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy. This is a fascinating commentary on medieval Middle Eastern culture, history, philosophy and religious thought.
Book Synopsis The Prince's Royal Concubine by : Lynn Raye Harris
Download or read book The Prince's Royal Concubine written by Lynn Raye Harris and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two glittering royal houses and one majestic seduction! Prince Cristiano di Savaré hunts his prey by ruthless means. Tonight's pickings... Antonella Romanelli, crown princess of a rival country and part of a dynasty he has every reason to despise Antonella is rocked by Cristiano's unexpected magnetism. But there's ice in his wolfish smile. Antonella is far from the promiscuous, spoiled socialite he believes her to be, but Cristiano is here to persuade her into compliance. If bedding her is what it takes, then it will make his mission all the more pleasurable
Book Synopsis The Mulatta Concubine by : Lisa Ze Winters
Download or read book The Mulatta Concubine written by Lisa Ze Winters and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora. Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.
Book Synopsis CliffsNotes on Buck's The Good Earth by : Stephen V Huntley
Download or read book CliffsNotes on Buck's The Good Earth written by Stephen V Huntley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on The Good Earth explores author Pearl S. Buck’s insight into the lives of the Chinese people, particularly the peasant population. Following the story of a Chinese farmer who represents the universal cultivator – one who knows that his riches and security come from the good earth itself, this study guide provides summaries and critical commentaries for each chapter within the novel. Other features that help you figure out this important work include Personal background on the author Introduction to and synopsis of the book In-depth character analyses for the two principal figures, Wang Lung and wife O-Lan Critical essays on the Chinese practices of foot binding and concubinage Review section that features interactive questions and suggested essay topics Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Book Synopsis Pretty Consort: Prince, Don’t Run away by : Shui Guoxiaotianxin
Download or read book Pretty Consort: Prince, Don’t Run away written by Shui Guoxiaotianxin and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a famous modern detective who had died in murder and had coincidentally transmigrated to the ugly woman of the ancient Prime Minister's Palace. He had thought that he would be able to survive in the ancient times, but in the end, he was betrothed to King Jing. King Jing ... This happy enemy, King Jing! Her teeth itched with hate. You want to eat and stay with her? None at all!
Book Synopsis A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet by : Du Halde
Download or read book A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet written by Du Halde and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wealth and Power by : Orville Schell
Download or read book Wealth and Power written by Orville Schell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Book Synopsis Women Shall Not Rule by : Keith McMahon
Download or read book Women Shall Not Rule written by Keith McMahon and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.
