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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820737503321

Titolo

Biographical dictionary of Chinese women : antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E. / / editors-in-chief,  Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A.D. Stefanowska ; assistant editor-in-chief, Sue Wiles ; coordinators, Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and others

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Armonk, N.Y. : , : M.E. Sharpe, , 2007

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 (xxx, 405 pages)

Collana

University of Hong Kong Libraries publications ; ; no. 21

Disciplina

305.4'092'251

920.72

920.720951B

Soggetti

Women - China

Women - China - History

China Biography Dictionaries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate Book."

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.