Description: This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.
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EAN: 9780765617507
UPC: 9780765617507
ISBN: 9780765617507
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Book Title: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquit
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Zoology, Biology, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 726 g
Type: Dictionary
Author: Sue Wiles, Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A.D. Stefanowska
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
