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Author : Ping Feng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648921530
Each of the four ladies are only known in China through dry historic text. The author writes history, as a novel, and gives well-researched personality to the characters. There are images of the four ladies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Women
ISBN : 0765619296
This text offers in-depth biographies of Chinese women from the fifth century BCE to the early 20th century. It reflects their achievements in poetry, literature, painting, music, dancing, calligraphy, medicine, science, politics, military leadership, diplomacy, religion, family and community life.
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538115411
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each period—Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou—Hinsch explores central aspects of female life such as marriage, family life, politics, ritual, and religious roles.
Author : Ping Shangguan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : China
ISBN : 7508518470
$59.32HIS008000 HISTORY/Asia/China Nate9787508518473The Feudal Empresses of Ancient ChinaRMB198.0011/1/2010paperback8.3 X 8.3 inches206EnglishChinese HistoryChinese Historical FiguresChinese Feudal EmpressesShangguan, PingAuthorIn China's long and brilliant history, there are many great women who have influenced Chinese history and made contributions to Chinese civilization. This book chooses fifteen famous and important Feudal Empresses of Ancient China in different dynasties and narrates their legendary stories. This book features plain words, real and interesting stories along with numerous historical pictures, and by reading this book, readers will find themselves navigate the time shuttle and walk up to these Feudal Empresses. This book, as a key to Chinese history knowledge, will increase foreign readers's interests in Chinese culture.Although the Emperors of ancient China are infamous for their influence on Chinese history, many women also played integral roles in the ruling of ancient China. This book chooses the fifteen most intriguing and important Empresses of the ancient Chinese dynasties and narrates their stories. Featuring real documents along with numerous historical pictures, this book will fascinate readers interested in ancient Chinese Emperors and Empresses. The Feudal Empresses of Ancient China sheds light on the role that women played through China s long history. This book will help foreign readers have a better understanding of female power in the monarchic system of China's feudal society."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190460914
This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the Confucian Four Books for Women spanned the 1st to the 16th centuries, and encompass Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women, Song Ruoxin's and Song Ruozhao's Analects for Women, Empress Renxiaowen's Teachings for the Inner Court, and Madame Liu's (Chaste Widow Wang's) Short Records of Models for Women. A female counterpart to the famous Sishu (Four Books) compiled by Zhu Xi, Wang Xiang's Nü sishu provides an invaluable look at the long-standing history and evolution of Chinese women's writing, education, identity, and philosophical discourse, along with their struggles and triumphs, across the millennia and numerous Chinese dynasties. Pang-White's new translation brings the authors of the Four Books for Women to life as real, living people, and illustrates why they wrote and how their work empowered women.
Author : Anne Behnke Kinney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231163088
When should a woman disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the policy of a ruler? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it is not only appropriate but necessary for women to offer counsel when fathers, husbands, sons, and rulers stray from virtue. The earliest Chinese text devoted to the moral education of women, the Lienü zhuan was compiled by Liu Xiang (79–8 B.C.E.) at the end of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.–9 C.E.) and recounts the deeds of both virtuous and wicked women. Informed by early legends, fictionalized historical accounts, and formal speeches on statecraft, the text taught generations of Chinese women to cultivate filial piety and maternal kindness and undertake such practices as suicide and self-mutilation to preserve chastity and reform wayward men. The Lienü zhuan’s stories inspired artists for a millennium and found their way into local and dynastic histories. An innovative work for its time, the text remains a critical tool for mapping women’s social, political, and domestic roles at a formative time in China’s development.
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538117972
This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : China
ISBN : 9810095155
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0742568245
After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the rulers' consorts and their families obtained powerful roles that allowed women unprecedented influence in the highest level of government. Recognized as the leading work in the field, this introductory survey offers the first sustained history of women in the early imperial era. Now in a revised edition that incorporates the latest scholarship and theoretical approaches, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources in Chinese and Japanese to paint a remarkably detailed picture of the distant past. Bret Hinsch's introductory chapters orient the nonspecialist to early imperial Chinese society; subsequent chapters discuss women's roles from the multiple perspectives of kinship, wealth and work, law, government, learning, ritual, and cosmology. An enhanced array of line drawings, a Chinese-character glossary, and extensive notes and bibliography enhance the author's discussion. Historians and students of gender and early China alike will find this book an invaluable overview.
Author : Weijia Huang,Qun Ao
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789882370616
Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate level textbook, which was intended to be used throughout the entire school year and designed mainly for students who have completed introductory courses of Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twentytwo lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics and sceneries and many others. In every lesson, the authors have strived to maintain a clear topic and a coherent structure. They have also endeavored to keep the contents lively and achieve a fluent writing style while closely controlling the structure and grammar of every lesson.
Author : Teresa Ng
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493552929
"Moon Flower" is about Diao Chan, one of the Four Legendary Beauties in Ancient China, during the late Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220). This is the tale of her personal sacrifice for the restoration of Han Reign, and for the salvation of her countrymen from tyranny. Around the year AD 190, the Han Court was in a state of turmoil. The nation was ruled by a powerful warlord, Dong Zhuo, through a child puppet emperor he installed, with tyranny and cruelty. His power was further strengthened with his adoptive son, Lu Bu, on his side; who was considered as the most valiant warrior in the entire nation. In desperation to save Han Court from the usurper Dong Zhuo, Interior Minister Wang Yun used his mesmerizingly beautiful young concubine, Diao Chan, in an interlocking scheme of deadly seduction. Diao Chan, an innocent young orphan taken from a Guanyin temple as a gift to Wang Yun by his mother, did not fully realized what a perilous web she was tangling herself into. In this fiery tale of vengeance and deception, she was the rare and exquisite moon flower drenched in a rain storm, and the three men who loved and desired her.
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538166413
This groundbreaking work provides an original and deeply knowledgeable overview of Chinese women and gender relations during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Bret Hinsch explores in detail the central aspects of female life in this era, including family and marriage, motherhood, political power, work, inheritance, education, religious roles, and ethics. He considers not only women’s experiences but also their emotional lives and the ideals they pursued. Drawing on a wide range of Western, Japanese, and Chinese primary and secondary sources—including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epitaphs—Hinsch makes an important period of Chinese women’s history accessible to Western readers.
Author : Anne Behnke Kinney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231163095
When should a woman disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the policy of a ruler? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it is not only appropriate but necessary for women to offer counsel when fathers, husbands, sons, and rulers stray from virtue. The earliest Chinese text devoted to the moral education of women, the Lienü zhuan was compiled by Liu Xiang (79–8 B.C.E.) at the end of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.–9 C.E.) and recounts the deeds of both virtuous and wicked women. Informed by early legends, fictionalized historical accounts, and formal speeches on statecraft, the text taught generations of Chinese women to cultivate filial piety and maternal kindness and undertake such practices as suicide and self-mutilation to preserve chastity and reform wayward men. The Lienü zhuan’s stories inspired artists for a millennium and found their way into local and dynastic histories. An innovative work for its time, the text remains a critical tool for mapping women’s social, political, and domestic roles at a formative time in China’s development.
Author : Teresa Ng
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477480692
From the dust of antiquity, over 2,500 years ago; the author unearthed the panorama of Ancient China, at the end of the Spring/Autumn Period (770 to 476 BC). Mud Blossom is a story of love and hate; vengeance and redemption. During that period, the Yue Kingdom was conquered by the much stronger Wu Kingdom. Fan Li, the top advisor of King Goujian of Yue, came up with a plan to restore the country. He offered up Xi Shi, the mesmerizing beauty he loved to Fuchai, the King of Wu; to seduce and distract him. King Fuchai indulged in seeking pleasure, and gradually lost sight of the quiet expansion of the vengeful King of Yue, giving Yue the opportunity to turn the tide. Xi Shi: our heroine of this tale was a young and beautiful silk yarn washer in Yue Kingdom. She and Fan Li met by chance on the bank of a stream, and they fell in love despite the vast difference in their stations. After their country was conquered by the Wu Kingdom and facing being annexed; Fan Li persuaded Xi Shi to sacrifice their love and personal happiness, for the sake of king and country. Xi Shi agreed to his proposal, and entered the Wu King's Inner Court, to endure a precarious and sensual existence for many years. She was inadvertently caught between the conflicts of these two kingdoms, and the two powerful men who loved her. Throughout history, Xi Shi had been alternately lauded as a savior of her people, or maligned as a fox spirit with base morals. She was like a lotus blossom rising out of muddy water, yet retained its purity! Note: Xi Shi was one of the four legendary beauties in Chinese history. Out of four of them, the author decided to write Xi Shi's fascinating story; because she greatly admired this historical woman's courage and resolution: in an age when the Chinese society regarded its women as mere chattels.
Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538134900
This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores women’s lived experiences but also delves into the subjective side of their emotional life and the ideals they pursued. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide range of sources, including standard histories, poetry, prose literature, and epigraphic sources such as epitaphs, commemorative religious inscriptions, and Dunhuang documents. Building on the best Western and Japanese scholarship, Hinsch also draws heavily on Chinese scholarship, most of which is unknown outside China. As the first study in English about women in the medieval era, this groundbreaking work will open a new window into Chinese history for Western readers.