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Paperback / softback. New. In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienu zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise counsel when fathers, husbands, or rulers strayed from the path of virtue. Compiled toward the end of the Former Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) by Liu Xiang (79-8 BCE), the Lienu zhuan is the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the education of women. Far from providing a unified vision of women's roles, the text promotes a diverse and sometimes contradictory range of practices. At one extreme are exemplars resorting to suicide and self-mutilation as a means to preserve chastity and ritual orthodoxy. At the other are bold and outspoken women whose rhetorical mastery helps correct erring rulers, sons, and husbands. The text provides a fascinating…
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Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lien� zhuan of Liu Xiang (Translations from the Asian Classics) Tapa blanda - 2014
de Liu, Xiang
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- Título Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lien� zhuan of Liu Xiang (Translations from the Asian Classics)
- Autor Liu, Xiang
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 384
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Columbia University Press, New York.
- Fecha de publicación 2014
- Features Bibliography, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231163095
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
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