Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables
Preface
Notes on Conventions
Comparative Time Chart for China, Korea, and Japan
Introduction

PART I. SCRIPTS OF MALE DOMINANCE
1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan
Hiroko Sekiguchi
2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: KQken-ShQtoku TennQ
Joan R. Piggott
3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography
Hai-soon Lee
4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China
Joseph S.C. Lam

PART II. PROPAGATING CONFUCIAN VIRTUES
5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China
Jian Zang
6. Propagating Female Virtues in ChosPn Korea
Martina Deuchler
7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety
Noriko Sugano

PART III. FEMALE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
8. Norms and Texts for Women’s Education in Tokugawa Japan
Martha C. Tocco
9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China
Fangqin Du and Susan Mann
Part IV. Corporeal and Textual Expressions of Female Subjectivity
10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China
Suzanne E. Cahill
11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives
JaHyun Kim Haboush

Glossary
Recommendations for Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Dorothy Ko is Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (California, 2001). JaHyun Kim Haboush is King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University and the editor and translator of The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea (California, 1996). Joan R. Piggott is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University and the author of The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (1997).