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240 reviews © Brill, Leiden, 2003 NAN NÜ 5.2 Also available online – www.brill.nl REVIEWS Bret Hinsch . Women in Early Imperial China . Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Pub- lishers, 2002. xi + 237 pp. £ 18.95/US$20.00. ISBN 0-7425-1872-8. Women in Early Imperial China is the latest contribution to a small but growing body of literature that seeks to reassess conventional think- ing on women before and during the early imperial period. It is a revision of Bret Hinsch’s 1994 Harvard Ph.D. dissertation of the same title. While it largely follows the same structure and some parts read much the same as the dissertation, it has been revised somewhat, as the author has refined his approach and sought to take advantage of studies published in the past eight years. The book’s jacket declares it to be “the first sustained history of women in the early imperial period.” The time is right for such a study, since enough has been done on the subject that a synthesis is needed to take stock and chart directions for future research. Hinsch’s approach is to use “role playing” to examine the posi- tion of women in early imperial China. This means discerning
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Published: Jan 1, 2003
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