Chinese Outcasts

Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-04-10596-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

Outcasts and pariahs are known to exist in several Asian countries but have usually not been associated with traditional Chinese society. Chinese Outcasts shows that some Chinese were in fact treated as outcasts or semi-outcasts. They include the boat people of South China and certain less well-known groups in different regions, including the "musicians' households" and the "fallen people". The reasons for their inferior status and perceived impurity is examined, as well as the intent behind a series of imperial emancipation edicts in the 1720s and 30s. The edict provided an escape route from inferior legal status but failed to put a quick end to customary social discrimination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hansson, Anders

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Anders Hansson, Ph.D.(1988), Harvard University, currently teaches East Asian studies at the University of Edinburgh.