Merchants' Daughters - Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China

The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.

About the author

Helen F. Siu is a professor of anthropology at Yale University and honorary director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Siu, Helen F. Siu, Helen F. (EDT) Siu
• Assisted by: F. Helen Siu (Editor), Helen F. Siu (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2011
• EAN: 9789888083480
• ISBN: 978-988-8083-48-0
• No. of pages: 375
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics