Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
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Author_Sherry J. Mou
Autumn Annals
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biographical historiography
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Chen Dynasty
confucian biography analysis
confucian gender roles
Devoted Widow
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Fang Xuanling
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gendered moral narratives
Han Dynasty
imperial chinese history
Imperial Consorts
Jin Dynasty
Jin Shu
Jiu Tang Shu
Li Ji
Married Women
Shi Ji
Sui Dynasty
Tang Histories
virtue ethics women
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Women's Biographies
women's social status china
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Yin Yang Theory
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- ISBN 9780765608673
- Weight: 860g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians - all men - began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies are descriptive by nature, they actually became prescriptive. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the Imperial era as well as for understanding Chinese womanhood in general. By contextualizing these biographies, the author shows us these women not just as the complaisant, calm-eyed, delicate figures that adorn Confucian texts, but also as the products of the Confucian tradition's appropriation of women.
Sherry J. Mou
