Download or read book Drowning Girls in China written by David E. Mungello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand years.