Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Female Infanticide
Chapter 2: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China
Chapter 3: Official and Literati Efforts to Combat Infanticide
Chapter 4: Infanticide Deniers
Chapter 5: The European Cult of Chinese Children
Chapter 6: Christian Mission Efforts to Aid Foundlings
Chapter 7: Female Infanticide in Modern China
Conclusion

About the Author

D. E. Mungello is professor of history at Baylor University.

Reviews

This study represents a milestone in understanding the history of Chinese childhood.
*Journal Of Psychohistory*

In this work, written with compassion, D. E. Mungello aims to tell a 'human’ story of female infanticide in China. . . . Given the sensitivity of the subject and the relative scarcity of research, in particular in English, Mungello has greatly enriched our knowledge of this topic. Readers will find in it abundantly useful information. Its publication will no doubt pave the way for more inquiries into an important yet difficult topic that has to this date deterred many other historians.
*Journal of Asian Studies*

In this evocatively titled volume, D. E. Mungello explores the causes, consequences, and multifarious reactions to female infanticide in China. . . . Fascinating.
*American Historical Review*

Both [of Mungello’s] books very candidly treat themes which, in the general celebration over the friendship and cultural exchange between Europe and China, are commonly neglected, namely, sexual abuse and infanticide. . . . In sum, these are two books that in addition to being worth reading are also thought-provoking.
*Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies*

Professor Mungello’s important study focuses on the specific and at times widespread phenomenon of female infanticide in nineteenth-century China. He is to be congratulated for having expertly tackled a sensitive issue which has hitherto received scant scholarly attention.
*R. G. Tiedemann, Centre for the Study of Christianity in China, King's College London*

Shocking, yet highly informative. Mungello has taken the most difficult and personal of topics—female infanticide—and with thorough research and thoughtful consideration has given us an historical account of the practice in China.
*Kathleen L. Lodwick, Penn State Lehigh Valley*