Money, Culture, and Social Ascendancy: Learned Women in Mercantile Lineages from Huizhou, 1700-1850

Dr Yang, Binbin   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2015-08-16

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Money, Culture, and Social Ascendancy: Learned Women in Mercantile Lineages from Huizhou, 1700-1850

culture, learned women, mercantile lineages, money, social ascendancy

Chinese History (including Socio-economic, Military, Legal Social and Cultural History)

Humanities & Social Sciences (H)

17600015

General Research Fund (GRF)

2015

Completed

1) To track the rise of learned womanhood in mercantile lineages from Huizhou; 2) To map the migration of these women’s families into China’s cultural and economic heartland; 3) To illustrate these women’s exertion of cultural power and their interactions with local elite societies; 4) To exemplify their strategies of attaining social success for both themselves and their families; 5) To probe into cases that typified the gender dynamics underlying the interplays of money, culture, and social ascendancy in this cultural and economic heartland.