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T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol

Conversations in World History

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The Rise of the Minding

It's not as far as I know, Patricia Ebride has written about this. It is common among the elite. The 19th century is not only Christian missionaries that are anti foot binding. And widow remarriage, at least in elite families, becomes highly founded,. And you start to get cults of widow chastity and things like this. But so that's something that goes from singing girls court is in culture into elite women's culture into more popular culture.

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