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CONTENTS
1. Clothes Make the Man: The Jesuits’ Adoption of Literati Masculinity
2. A Kingdom of Virtuous Women: Jesuit Descriptions of China’s Moral Topography
3. A Source of Creative Tension: Literati Jesuits and Priestly Duties
4. Strengthening the Marital Bond: The Christianization of Chinese Marriage
5. Praying for Progeny: Women and Catholic Spiritual Remedies
6. Domestic Communities: Women’s Congregations and Communal Piety
7. Sharing Genteel Spirituality: The Female Networks of the Xus of Shanghai
8. A Widow and Her Virgins: The Domestic Convents of Hangzhou and Nanjing
9. Fabrics of Devotion: Catholic Women’s Pious Patronage