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The modern concubine is typically young, pretty, educated, fashionable, and in it for the money. Most people in Beijing either know somebody who is an er nai, or somebody who has one. ... Traditional Chinese Architecture: Evolution and History, Chinese Siheyuan Courtyards...
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The origins for a male to hold a concubine were for sexual pleasure and to ensure numerous children. Mostly concubines served to satisfy sexual pleasure since any children that resulted from a mistress was considered ... Gernet, Jacues. A History of Chinese Civilization. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1972.
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departments.kings.edu/womens_history/concubin.html
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Chinese women became representative objects for Western observers, ... Concubines and Bound Feet; Western observers often remarked on two customs prevalent in 19th-century China: concubinage and foot binding. Although taking a concubine was supposed to be a method of last resort for a patriarch to acquire a male heir,
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The daughter of a high official, she was one of the few obese women in Chinese history to have been considered beautiful. She became a concubine to Xuanzong’s son, but the 60-year-old emperor found the girl so desirable that he forced his son to relinquish her.
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china, concubines, on the contrary, chinese culture, taoist culture, concubine, chinese women, rest assure, concubinage, veneration, embarrassment, dynasty, devotion, spite, centuries, parents, ... The history of concubines in China can be dated back to 221 BC, in which the Ch'in Dynasty shifted the Taoist culture to...
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Wu Zetian was the most legendary and controversial figure in Chinese history. She lived to be 82, and held power for 50 years. Wu Zetian was born into an official's family in Wenshui, Shanxi Province. She was not only beautiful but also ... Wu Zetian was initially conferred the title of cairen (concubine of medium rank),
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www.chinavoc.com/history/tang/women.htm
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Its purpose was to produce a tiny foot, the "golden lotus", which was three inches long and thought to be both lovely and alluring.[4] It is believed that the origin of the term "golden lotus" emerged in the Southern Tang dynasty around 920 A.D., where the emperor Li Yu ordered his favorite concubine, ... For Chinese men,
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Liu Qingzhu said that Han was the only dynasty in Chinese history to build a special palace for empresses and imperial concubines, while the living places for queens of other dynasties were included in the imperial palaces.
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