Women in Early Medieval China 9781538117972, 9781538117965

This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunio

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Women in Early Medieval China
9781538117972, 9781538117965

Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China's Han dy

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Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of pe

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While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times c

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