商品簡介
This volume completes McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of empresses and imperial concubines as mere victims or playthings, this book considers as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor's relations with others.
作者簡介
Keith McMahon is professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas. His books includeWomen Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao andThe Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-Century China.
