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One of her famous works is "The Red Rose and the White Rose." [13] Eileen Chang is a uniquely charming writer in the history of modern Chinese literature. Her life-long creation involves novels, essays, and script reviews, among which novels have achieved the highest achievement.
Zhuangzi (pinyin), Chuang Tzŭ (Wade-Giles), Chuang Tsu, Zhuang Tze, or Chuang Tse (Traditional Chinese characters: 莊子; Simplified Chinese characters: 庄子, literally meaning "Master Zhuang") was a famous philosopher in ancient China who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, corresponding to the Hundred ...
The strict division of the sexes, apparent in the policy that "men plow, women weave" (Chinese: 男耕女織), partitioned male and female histories as early as the Zhou dynasty, with the Rites of Zhou (written at the end of the Warring States Period), even stipulating that women be educated specifically in "women's rites" (Chinese: 陰禮 ...
Song Ruoshen (died 820) primary author of Analects for Women, one of the Four Books for Women; Song Ruoxian (772-835) secretary and record keeper for Emperor Jingzong; Song Ruoxun (fl. 8th Century) one of the five Song Sisters; Song Ruozhao (761-828) poet, biographer, annotated her sister Ruoshen's Analects for Women; Su Hui (4th Century) poet
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".
Later scholars praised her as a versatile talent, proficient in both literary and martial arts, and unparalleled in her comprehensive knowledge of both Chinese and Western scientific methods. [6] Wang Zhenyi believed in equality and equal opportunity for both men and women. She wrote in one of her poems: It's made to believe, Women are the same ...
Qiu Jin was known as an eloquent orator [17] who spoke out for women's rights, such as the freedom to marry, freedom of education, and abolishment of the practice of foot binding. In 1906 she founded China Women's News (Zhongguo nü bao), a radical women's journal with another female poet, Xu Zihua in Shanghai. [18]
This book follows the lièzhuàn (列傳 "arrayed biographies") biographical format established by the Chinese historian Sima Qian.The word liènǚ (列女 "famous women in history") is sometimes understood as liènǚ (烈女 "women martyrs"), which Neo-Confucianists used to mean a "woman who commits suicide after her husband's death rather than remarry; [a] woman who dies defending her honor."