Frontiers of History in China (FHC) aims to reflect the most recent scholarly achievements in the research of Chinese history throughout all historical periods. Topics for consideration include, but are not limited to: social and cultural history, political and economic history, environmental history, gender history, and historical anthropology. FHC seeks to promote academic communication and cooperation between historians in China and the rest of the world.
Frontiers of History in China
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Identifiers
ISSN | 1673-3401 |
e-ISSN | 1673-3525 |
Publisher
SP Higher Education Press
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Data set: Springer
Articles
Frontiers of History in China > 2011 > 6 > 4 > 538-561
“Bare branches,” the name given to unmarried men in China, have historically posed a great threat to social stability in that country. Based on historical records and literature, the findings in this study reveal that female infanticide, coupled with the practice of polygyny, meant that during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republican Era, up to twenty percent of males remained single. As a result,...
Frontiers of History in China > 2011 > 6 > 4 > 588-606
Chinese local gazetteers (difangzhi) have been long recognized as an important primary source for the study of local history. Since the 1990s, in addition to projects to publish provincial, city, and county gazetteers, local gazetteers for villages, city districts, and city neighborhoods and streets (jiedao) have also been compiled. This paper focuses on one particular genre of these newly emerged...