Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women

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.

• | Author: Sherry J. Mou
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0765608677
• | ISBN-13: 9780765608673