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Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives - A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women (Hardcover, New)
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Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives - A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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