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Empress Wu Zetian in fiction and in history : female defiance in Confucian China / Dora Shu-Fang Dien.
LIBRA DS749.42.W8 D54 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dien, Dora Shu-fang.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empresses--China--Biography.
- Empresses.
- China.
- Women--China--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Sex role--China--History.
- Sex role.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 109 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, [2003]
- Contents:
- The ideological backdrop
- Destinies of the flowers in the mirror
- Tang's commentary on Chinese society
- The rise and fall of the historical Empress Wu
- Empress Wu's achievements
- Gender distinctions in traditional China
- Defiant women in legend and fiction
- Overcoming the legacy of Confucianism: urban educated women today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [101]-105) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1590338049
- OCLC:
- 52587528
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