TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cook,Constance A.
AU  - Luo,Xinhui
TI  - Birth in ancient China: a study of metaphor and cultural identity in pre-imperial China 
T2  - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SN  - 978-1-4384-6711-5
U1  - 392.12 23E
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Childbirth / Social aspects / China / History / To 1500
KW  - Birth customs / China / istory / To 1500
KW  - Human reproduction / Social aspects / China / History / To 1500
KW  - Metaphor / Social aspects / China / History / To 1500
KW  - Group identity / China / History / To 1500
KW  - China / Social life and customs / To 221 B.C
KW  - China / History / Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 131-148; Introduction: A Chu Text -- 1. Words and Images -- Chu Ancestral Names and the Word for Birth -- A Lost Word for Birth -- Suggestive Images -- 2. Controlling Reproduction : Fertility Prayers -- Zhou Fertility Prayers in Zhou Bronze Inscriptions -- A Warring States Prayer Preserved on Bamboo Strips -- 3. Mothers and Embryos -- Gestation -- 4. Controlling the Pregnant Body -- Time and Divination -- Curses -- Sequestering -- A Question of Thorns -- 5. Divine Origins and Chu Genealogical History -- Gender Bending -- 6. The Traumatic Births of Non-Zhou Ancestors
ER  -