Women In Tang China

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538134900

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Women in Tang China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara Bennett Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317463726

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Notable Women of China by Barbara Bennett Peterson Pdf

The collaborative effort of nearly 100 China scholars from around the world, this unique one-volume reference provides 89 in-depth biographies of important Chinese women from the fifth century B.C.E to the early twentieth century.

Author : May Holdsworth
Publisher : Odyssey Publications
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9622176445

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Women of the Tang Dynasty by May Holdsworth Pdf

Women in Tang society enjoyed experimenting with ways to enhance their charms. Not only enthusiastically adopting fashion styles of foreigners who thronged the capital of Chang'an, they were also some of the earliest cross-dressers in history. Through a close-up look at excavated pottery figures and surviving gold and silver objects, a picture emerges of a remarkably open society in which women took an active part. The Close-Up series is the very first of its kind to give you a fascinating, concise introduction to individual aspects of China and its peoples, past and present. Each topic is presented by chosen experts in their fields who write with brevity for the intelligent reader. Illuminating text is supported by the work of international photographers and with maps and diagrams to give a picture that satisfies curiosity and encourages further reading.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780765643162

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles Pdf

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and will form the only substantial information on women available in English. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names.

Author : Jinhua Jia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231545495

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Gender, Power, and Talent by Jinhua Jia Pdf

During the Tang dynasty (618–907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public life. Women, from imperial princesses to the daughters of commoner families, could be ordained as Daoist priestesses and become religious leaders, teachers, and practitioners in their own right. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments: one wrote and transmitted texts on meditation and inner cultivation; another, a physician, authored a treatise on therapeutic methods, medical theory, and longevity techniques. Priestess-poets composed major works, and talented priestess-artists produced stunning calligraphy. In Gender, Power, and Talent, Jinhua Jia draws on a wealth of previously untapped sources to explain how Daoist priestesses distinguished themselves as a distinct gendered religious and social group. She describes the life journey of priestesses from palace women to abbesses and ordinary practitioners, touching on their varied reasons for entering the Daoist orders, the role of social and religious institutions, forms of spiritual experience, and the relationships between gendered identities and cultural representations. Jia takes the reader inside convents and cloisters, demonstrating how they functioned both as a female space for self-determination and as a public platform for both religious and social spheres. The first comprehensive study of the lives and roles of Daoist priestesses in Tang China, Gender, Power, and Talent restores women to the landscape of Chinese religion and literature and proposes new methodologies for the growing field of gender and religion.

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 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.

Author : Charles D. Benn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0195176650

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China's Golden Age by Charles D. Benn Pdf

In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.

Author : BuYun Chen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745312

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Empire of Style by BuYun Chen Pdf

Tang dynasty (618–907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang’an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production. This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources—paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts—and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history. Art History Publication Initiative. For more information, visit http://arthistorypi.org/books/empire-of-style

Author : Lyn Reese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : 0962588040

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The Eyes of the Empress by Lyn Reese Pdf

Based on scholarship in women's history, these dramatic stories teach about women and girls from ancient times through the 16th century.

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538166413

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Women in Qing China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

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 : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674033061

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China’s Cosmopolitan Empire by Mark Edward Lewis Pdf

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

Author : Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317515623

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Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II by Lily Xiao Hong Lee,Sue Wiles Pdf

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190460914

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The Confucian Four Books for Women by Anonim Pdf

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 : Charles Benn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313006876

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Daily Life in Traditional China by Charles Benn Pdf

This thorough exploration of the aspects of everyday life in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) provides fascinating insight into a culture and time that is often misunderstood, especially by those from western cultures. Here students will find the details of what life was really like for these people. How was their society structured? How did they entertain themselves? What sorts of food did they eat? The answers to these and other questions are provided in full detail to bring this golden age of Chinese culture alive for the modern reader. Based mainly on classical translations from the Chinese themselves, each chapter addresses a specific aspect of daily living in the voices of those who lived during the time. A myriad of interesting details are provided to help readers discover, among other things, what life was like in the city, what homes and gardens were like, how the role's of men and women differed, and the many rituals in which people participated. Detailed descriptions of the clothes and materials people wore, the games they played and the cooking methods they used for specific foods provide readers with the ability to experiment on their own to recreate the time and place, so they can have a better understanding of this intriguing culture.

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : New York : Urizen Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Women
ISBN : UVA:X000314334

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About Chinese Women by Julia Kristeva Pdf