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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.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Lee, Lily Xiao Hong, editor.
Stefanowska, A. D., editor.
Wiles, Sue, 1940- editor.
Childs-Johnson, Elizabeth, contributor.
Series:
University of Hong Kong Libraries publications.
University of Hong Kong Libraries publications ; no. 21
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--China--Biography--Dictionaries.
Women.
Women--China--History.
China--Biography--Dictionaries.
China.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxx, 405 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
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
Notes:
"An East Gate Book."
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9786612119460
9781317475903
1317475909
9781315706122
1315706121
9781282119468
128211946X
9781780342832
1780342837
9780765624635
076562463X
OCLC:
429980273

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