Crossing the Gate

Crossing the GateChallenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network,

her questionable origins and naïveté make her a target for rumors and speculation

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations

saturated hydraulic conductivity

At the height of Carroll’s use of satire and humor

it could be as revolutionary as its subtitle suggests

biosynthesis

This new nutritional approach represents a paradigm shift in pig feeding

Multidisciplinary examination of the public sphere in "traditional" Muslim society

the author explores Shakespeare's views on perennially important political themes such as ambition

What about alternative medicine

Hobbes includes topics of religion

including new contributions by Stanislav Grof