Inscribing the essentials: Culture and the body in Ming-Qing fiction

Ming Studies

Volumn 1999, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 6-36

  Epstein, Maram ^a  

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ART; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; LITERATURE; MEN'S HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL STATUS; THERAPY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BODY FLUIDS; CHINA; CONFUCIANISM; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMAN BODY; LITERATURE; MEN'S HEALTH; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; THERAPEUTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84866921965     PISSN: 0147037X     EISSN: 17597595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/014703799788763416     Document Type: Article

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