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Reviews reviews 283 REVIEWS DENG Xiaonan 鄧小南 , chief editor; Gao Shiyu 高世瑜 and Rong Xinjiang 榮新江 , associate editors, Tang Song nüxing yu shehui 唐宋女性與社會 (Women and society in the Tang and Song dynasties). Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2003. 2 volumes, 918 pages. RMB 80. ISBN 7-5326-1276-7/K.210 Although the major contours of the Tang-Song transition—the shift from aristocracy to aristocrat-dominated bureaucracy, the move from north to south China, the rise of Neo-Confucianism, the rapid eco- nomic growth of the commercial revolution—are distinct, historians are less certain how women fit into this landscape. Most would grant that the women of the Tang dynasty (618-907), and particularly of the Tang royal family with its Turkic roots, had greater freedom than those of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Although some women may have benefited from the commercial growth of the Song, others clearly did not: the practice of footbinding appeared for the first time among the court dancers of the Five Dynasties period (910-60) and spread to women of all strata by the fall of the Southern Song in 1279. The women of Ming and Qing China certainly lived in a society that paid lip service to, even if it did not http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png NAN NÜ Brill

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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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reviews 283 REVIEWS DENG Xiaonan 鄧小南 , chief editor; Gao Shiyu 高世瑜 and Rong Xinjiang 榮新江 , associate editors, Tang Song nüxing yu shehui 唐宋女性與社會 (Women and society in the Tang and Song dynasties). Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2003. 2 volumes, 918 pages. RMB 80. ISBN 7-5326-1276-7/K.210 Although the major contours of the Tang-Song transition—the shift from aristocracy to aristocrat-dominated bureaucracy, the move from north to south China, the rise of Neo-Confucianism, the rapid eco- nomic growth of the commercial revolution—are distinct, historians are less certain how women fit into this landscape. Most would grant that the women of the Tang dynasty (618-907), and particularly of the Tang royal family with its Turkic roots, had greater freedom than those of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Although some women may have benefited from the commercial growth of the Song, others clearly did not: the practice of footbinding appeared for the first time among the court dancers of the Five Dynasties period (910-60) and spread to women of all strata by the fall of the Southern Song in 1279. The women of Ming and Qing China certainly lived in a society that paid lip service to, even if it did not

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