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Drowning Girls in China - Female Infanticide in China since 1650 (Paperback, New)
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Drowning Girls in China - Female Infanticide in China since 1650 (Paperback, New)
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This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the
long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in
China. Although infanticide and child abandonment were worldwide
phenomena from antiquity down to the nineteenth century when
massive numbers of children were still being abandoned in Europe,
China was unique in targeting girls almost exclusively. Yet despite
its persistence for two thousand years, little has been published
on a practice that is deeply sensitive within China and little
understood by outsiders. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents
and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the
causes and continuation of female infanticide since 1650 despite
efforts by Confucian moralists, Buddhist teachings, government
officials, and even imperial edicts to stop the practice. The
arrival of Christian missionaries led to foreign involvement as
well, with Catholic priests baptizing abandoned and dying infants
in Nanjing and Beijing beginning in the early 1600s. Mission
efforts peaked in the nineteenth century when the European-based
Society of the Holy Childhood urged Catholic children to contribute
their pennies to help neglected children in China. However, most of
the infant victims were drowned at birth in the privacy of their
homes, thereby escaping the scrutiny of the law and the public.
Mungello brings this secretive practice to light with a nuanced and
balanced analysis of the cultural, economic, and social causes of
early infanticide and its contemporary manifestation in
sex-selected abortion as a result of the government's one-child
policy. Presenting female infanticide as a human rather than a
distinctly Chinese problem, he estimates the tragic loss of girls
in the millions.
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