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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453866503321

Titolo

Biographical dictionary of chinese women / / editors-in-chief, Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A.D. Stefanowska ; assistant editor-in-chief, Sue Wiles

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-47590-9

1-315-70612-1

1-282-11946-X

1-78034-283-7

9786612119460

0-7656-2463-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

University of Hong Kong Libraries publications ; ; no. 21

Altri autori (Persone)

LeeLily Xiao Hong

StefanowskaA. D

WilesSue <1940->

Disciplina

305.4'092'251

920.72

920.720951B

Soggetti

Women - China

Electronic books.

China Biography Dictionaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

An East Gate book.

Coordinators: Shang: Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Zhou: Constance A. Cook, Qin through Han: Yin Lee Wong, Three kingdoms through Sui: Lily Xiao Hong Lee.

First published 2007 by M.E. Sharpe.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women; Contents; Preface; Editors' Note; Acknowledgments; Guide to Chinese Words Used; Contributors; Translators; Chronology of Dynasties andMajor Rulers; Finding List by Backgroundor Fields of Endeavor; Biographies; Glossary of Chinese Names

Sommario/riassunto

This new volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, spans more than 2,000 years and recovers the stories of more than 200



women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of noteriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment--all are to be found in this remarkable dictionary.