Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
- ISBN-10
- 0765608677
- ISBN-13
- 9780765608673
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Women
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- M.E. Sharpe
- Author
- Sherry J. Mou
Description
As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians - all men - began to record the achievements of Chinese women. This volume contextualizes these biographies and shows how women became the products of the Confucian tradition's appropriation.
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