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Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  The twentieth century  1912 2000

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women The twentieth century 1912 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical dictionary devoted to Chinese women, this text is the result of years of research, translation and writing from contributors from around the world. This volume focuses on the 20th century and includes sportwomen, film stars, musicians, politicians, artists, educators and more.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  v  2  Twentieth Century

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women v 2 Twentieth Century written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by scores of China scholars from around the world. Volume II: Twentieth Century includes a far greater range of women than would have been previously possible because of the enormous amount of historical material and scholarly research that has become available recently. They include scientists, businesswomen, sportswomen, military officers, writers, scholars, revolutionary heroines, politicians, musicians, opera stars, film stars, artists, educators, nuns, and more.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women written by Yubing Chen and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though there exist many biographical dictionaries of the achievements of Chinese people throughout history, few women feature. Since the mid-1980s, researchers from the University of Sydney’s Department of Chinese Studies have been collecting the life stories of women whose academic, professional and technical achievements have had lasting impact on current and future generations. This volume contains over 300 biographies of these women, most of whom were born in China, though some were born abroad to Chinese parents, and some are foreigners whose work has become significant in China. It is in the context of globalisation and a rapidly evolving Chinese society that the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: 1912–2000, is prepared. In the first half of the twentieth century, revolutionaries, political activists and reformers feature. Some are politicians, or who rose to powerful positions within the government. As new technologies and entertainments were developed, the latter half of the century gave birth to fearless female performers and scholars: actresses, dramatists and martial arts stars alongside scientists and lawyers. Throughout the century, the creative work of Chinese women is a constant theme – novelists, directors, painters and poets all feature. This volume is accompanied by an index of names by profession, based on each woman’s most well-known research category, profession or skill; some women will appear in more than one category. To cater for readers who are not experts, this volume also includes a chronology of twentieth-century events. This edition of this work is published in full Chinese characters. A previous volume also in Chinese, The Qing Dynasty 1644–1912, is also available from Sydney University Press.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  v  1  The Qing Period  1644 1911

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women v 1 The Qing Period 1644 1911 written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the stories of women high born and low, representing a range of female endeavor. The biographies in this work are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  Volume II

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women Volume II written by Lily Xiao Hong Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

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

Download or read book Gentlemen s Prescriptions for Women s Lives A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women written by Sherry J. Mou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women written by Lily Lee and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women.

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Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women 20th C

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women 20th C written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes

Download or read book Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes written by Li Yu-ning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.

Book Women in China s Long Twentieth Century

Download or read book Women in China s Long Twentieth Century written by Gail Hershatter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953

Book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women  The Qing Period  1644 1911

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women The Qing Period 1644 1911 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and Gender in Twentieth Century China

Download or read book Women and Gender in Twentieth Century China written by Paul J. Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul J. Bailey provides the first analytical study in English of Chinese women's experiences during China's turbulent twentieth century. Incorporating the very latest specialized research, and drawing upon Chinese cinema and autobiographical memoirs, this fascinating narrative account: - Explores the impact of political, social and cultural change on women's lives, and how Chinese women responded to such developments - Charts the evolution of gender discourses during this period - Illuminates both change and continuity in gender discourse and practice Approachable and authoritative, this is an essential overview for students, teachers and scholars of gender history, and anyone with an interest in modern Chinese history.