Bettine Birge
Expert on issues of gender and ethnicity in China and Inner Asia
Associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Expertise
- women and gender in China and Inner Asia
- women and Confucianism
- property rights in China and Inner Asia
- competing definitions of marriage and resulting legal clashes in multiethnic Yuan society
- issues of gender and ethnicity in traditional law
Additional Information
- Author of Marriage and the Law in Mongol-Yuan China, 1260-1368 (in preparation) and Woman, Property and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yuan China, 960-1368 (1999)
Languages
- Chinese