BT: [[China]] / [[history]] --- # history of China ## dynasties - [[Xia dynasty]] - [[Shang dynasty]] - [[Xia dynasty|Xia dynasty (c. 2100–c. 1600 BCE)]] - [[Zhou dynasty|Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BCE)]] - [[Southern Dynasties|Southern Dynasties (420–589)]] - [[Tang dynasty]] - [[Song dynasty|Song dynasty (960–1279)]] - [[Yuan dynasty|Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)]] - [[Ming dynasty|Ming dynasty (1368–1644)]] - [[Qing dynasty]] --- [[In ancient China, ‘“manless women” faced … social scrutiny and were often treated differently from women whose sexuality remained in line with the family system’.]][^1] [^1]: Hsiao-Wen Cheng, *[[Cheng, Divine, Demonic, and Disordered, 2021|Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China]]* (University of Washington Press, 2021), p. 4.