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S26/0500 --- S26/0700 --- S26/0710 --- Land tenure --- -Taiwan aborigines --- -#SML: Chinese memorial library --- Aborigines, Taiwan --- Indigenous peoples --- Taiwan aboriginal peoples --- Ethnology --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Taiwan--History: general and before 1945 --- Taiwan--Economy and commerce --- Taiwan--Agriculture (incl. 'rural reconstruction'), forestry, fishery and environment --- History --- Taiwan --- Economic conditions --- -Land tenure --- Taiwan aborigines --- History. --- -S26/0500 --- #SML: Chinese memorial library
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Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls’ feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.
Footbinding --- Women --- Binding of feet --- Foot --- Foot-binding --- Deformities, Artificial --- History. --- Employment --- Social conditions. --- Artificial deformities --- Binding --- Abnormalities --- S11/0710 --- S11/0742 --- History --- Social conditions --- China: Social sciences--Women and gender: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Footbinding
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This volume examines contrasting historical demographics in Western Europe and Asia, taking the Netherlands and Taiwan as representative populations. Both countries have witnessed steady, continuous improvements in public health, disease prevention, and medical care. The contributors compare the impact of disease and mortality on the lives of individuals and families under very different cultural and social conditions. Death at the Opposite Ends of the Eurasian Continent analyzes a variety of factors, including maternal and infant mortality, as well as the accuracy of Taiwan's censuses and death reporting.
Mortality -- Netherlands. --- Mortality -- Taiwan. --- Netherlands -- Statistics, Vital. --- Taiwan -- Statistics, Vital. --- Mortality --- Business & Economics --- Demography --- Regional disparities --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Death (Biology) --- Regional disparities.
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