Tales From Ancient China S Imperial Harem

Author : Xiaoyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : China
ISBN : 7119020412

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Tales from Ancient China's Imperial Harem by Xiaoyan Pdf

This book is more than a series of tales about intrigues, illicit love affairs, jealousies, and murders committed by the various women who populated the harems of China's many emperors. It is a unique retelling of major events in China's more than 3,000-year-old history as seen through the eyes of these courtesans of the rear palace. Each emperor had thousands of beauties at his beck and call. Most of them, separated at a young age from their families, lived in the rear palace in loneliness and seclusion. A few, however, wielded great power or even gained supremacy over the imperial court. Their stories vividly portray the social customs and palace life in ancient China, and give new insights into the important role of women in Chinese history.

Author : Baojun Luan,Bowen Tang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016476934

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Tales about Chinese Emperors by Baojun Luan,Bowen Tang Pdf

Author : Xizhi Shang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9838997331

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Tales of Empresses and Imperial Consorts in China by Xizhi Shang Pdf

Author : X. L. Woo
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628942064

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Love Tales of Ancient China by X. L. Woo Pdf

Digging into Chinese folktales, Mr. Woo tells us stories about falling in love in a world that is distant in time and place, distinct in culture and expectations, each with a touch of the exotic. In these tales dating from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, dramas unfold in the Imperial palace, along the back roads, and in gardens perfumed with the scent of peony blossoms in the moonlight.

Author : Danielle Candelora,Nadia Ben-Marzouk,Kathlyn M. Cooney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000636253

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Ancient Egyptian Society by Danielle Candelora,Nadia Ben-Marzouk,Kathlyn M. Cooney Pdf

This volume challenges assumptions about—and highlights new approaches to—the study of ancient Egyptian society by tackling various thematic social issues through structured individual case studies. The reader will be presented with questions about the relevance of the past in the present. The chapters encourage an understanding of Egypt in its own terms through the lens of power, people, and place, offering a more nuanced understanding of the way Egyptian society was organized and illustrating the benefits of new approaches to topics in need of a critical re-examination. By re-evaluating traditional, long-held beliefs about a monolithic, unchanging ancient Egyptian society, this volume writes a new narrative—one unchecked assumption at a time. Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches is intended for anyone studying ancient Egypt or ancient societies more broadly, including undergraduate and graduate students, Egyptologists, and scholars in adjacent fields.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 019275078X

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Tales from China by Anonim Pdf

This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being. There are folk-tales too, about ghosts, rain-makers, students and magicians, and a man who is nearly made into fishpaste.

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442222908

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Women Shall Not Rule by Keith McMahon Pdf

Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.

Author : Olivia Milburn
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295748764

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The Empress in the Pepper Chamber by Olivia Milburn Pdf

Zhao Feiyan (45–1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE–220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually led to her being forced to commit suicide. After her death, her reputation was marred by accusations of vicious scheming, murder of other consorts and their offspring, and relentless promiscuity, punctuated by bouts of extravagant shopping. This first book-length study of Zhao Feiyan and her literary legacy includes a complete translation of The Scandalous Tale of Zhao Feiyan (Zhao Feiyan waizhuan), a Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) erotic novella that describes in great detail the decadent lifestyle enjoyed by imperial favorites in the harem of Emperor Cheng. This landmark text was crucial for establishing writings about palace women as the accepted forum for discussing sexual matters, including fetishism, obsession, jealousy, incompatibility in marriage, and so on. Using historical documentation, Olivia Milburn reconstructs the evolution of Zhao Feiyan’s story and illuminates the broader context of palace life for women and the novella’s social influence.

Author : Lim SK
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789812299949

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Chinese Imperial Women (2010 Edition - EPUB) by Lim SK Pdf

The word 'harem' often conjures up images of beautiful, half-dressed oriental women lounging in some stately pleasure dome, waiting for the opportunity to satisfy their masters. And in some ways this was not far from the truth. Tang Dynasty Emperor Xuanzong had 40,000 women in his harem, while the Qing emperors would fill their harem with the most eligible girls in the country for both pleasure and procreation. Some emperors were blessed with empresses who led their dynasties to prosperity and stability. Many emperors, however, found out that they had taken on more than they expected with the arrival of talented, ruthless and ambitious beauties. Wu Zetian was one such woman. Arriving in the harem of Tang Emperor Taizong as a sweet-faced 14-year-old, she went on, through treachery and murder, to become empress. This book tells the stories of the outstanding, the outrageous, the glorious as well as the tragic empresses and concubines of the Chinese palace.

Author : OLIVIA. MILBURN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2025-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1802075941

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Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination by OLIVIA. MILBURN Pdf

Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination is a study and translation of two classic Chinese texts about the lives of Khitan and Mongol empresses and imperial consorts, never before translated into English. In 1075, Empress Xuanyi of the Liao dynasty was accused of adultery and forced to commit suicide. An Account of Burned Pepper (Fenjiao lu) purports to be an eyewitness account penned by a Liao government official of the conspiracy against the lovely and talented empress, who became tragically embroiled in a vicious court intrigue. Meanwhile, Yuan Dynasty Records of the Lateral Courts (Yuanshi yeting ji) claims to tell the true story of life in the imperial harem in the final years of Emperor Shun (r. 1333-1368), as he ceased participating in the government of the country, preferring instead to spend his time enjoying louche pleasures in the luxurious surroundings of his Beijing palace. Both these highly influential accounts have shaped understandings of the role of women in conquest dynasty courts for centuries, yet both can be shown to be forgeries, dating to the late Ming dynasty. This book offers a groundbreaking new assessment of the history of the Liao and Yuan dynasties, and the way in which our understanding of these regimes has been defined by early seventeenth century literary forgeries.

Author : Verne Dyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Legends
ISBN : UCAL:$B41103

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Forgotten Tales of Ancient China by Verne Dyson Pdf

Author : Tang Jiu Qing
Publisher : Seven Seas Entertainment
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798893730395

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Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu (Novel) Vol. 1 by Tang Jiu Qing Pdf

Shen Zechuan is the eighth son of the traitorous Prince of Jianxing, a man who doomed his cities and people to destruction at the hands of the foreign enemy. As the only surviving member of his reviled line, Shen Zechuan bears the hatred of the nation. And no one's hate burns hotter than that of Xiao Chiye, the youngest son of the powerful Prince of Libei. Xiao Chiye would love nothing more than to see Shen Zechuan dead, but against all odds, he clings to life. Rather than succumb to his family's disgrace, he becomes a thorn in Xiao Chiye's side, clawing his way into the cutthroat political world of the capital. Yet as these two bitter enemies struggle against the bonds of their fate, they find themselves drawn together with a force neither expected--and neither can hope to resist.

Author : James McMullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198152515

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Idealism, Protest, and the Tale of Genji by James McMullen Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at early modern Japanese Confucian thought through a study of Kumazawa Banzan (1619-91). It argues that, contrary to the often-held view that Confucianism was an ideological tool used to support the current regime, Banzan's thought suggests that the traditioncontained elements subversive to the status quo: Banzan is presented as a figure of protest. The book explores his stormy relations with feudal authority and his remonstrations against contemporary maladministration. Banzan also criticized the historical militarization of Japanese societyand high consumption, which he believed to cause deforestation and climatic warming. His thinking extended to metaphysics and the question of Japan's national identity. A remarkable feature of his thought was his identification of an arcadian society in the Tale of Genji, a book condemned bymost of his fellow Confucian thinkers. This book is based on Banzan's written works, both published and in manuscript, his correspondence, and other contemporary sources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sex role
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113566249

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Nan Nü by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538117972

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Women in Early Medieval China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

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.