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Lessons for Women (Chinese: 女誡), also translated as Admonitions for Women, Women's Precepts, or Warnings for Women, is a work by the Han dynasty female intellectual Ban Zhao (45/49–117/120 CE). As one of the Four Books for Women , Lessons had wide circulation in the late Ming and Qing dynasties (i.e. 16th–early 20th centuries).
The Three Obediences and Four Virtues (Chinese: 三 從 四 德; pinyin: Sāncóng Sìdé; Vietnamese: Tam tòng, tứ đức) is a set of moral principles and social code of behavior for maiden and married women in East Asian Confucianism, especially in ancient and imperial China. Women were to obey their fathers, husbands, and sons, and to be ...
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."
Harry Chan: First Chinese mayor of Darwin, Australia; Alec Fong Lim AM: Lord Mayor of Darwin, 1984–1990; Katrina Fong Lim: Lord Mayor of Darwin, 2012-2017; Henry Tsang OAM: Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier; Deputy Lord Mayor, Sydney, 1991–1999; Wellington Lee AM OBE: Deputy Lord Mayor of Melbourne, 1999–2000
The intersection of psychology and spirituality became his main interest during the 1970s. [14] His general approach was described as a "multidisciplinary analysis of psychological change and spiritual development" that blends "insights from psychology, theology, anthropology, his own clinical practice, and other disciplines."
However, there were very few Chinese women migrating to Australia. At one point in the 1860s the numbers of Chinese in Australia was around 40,000. Of these, it is believed only 12, were women. [7] This gender imbalance meant that Chinese men married women of European descent but many had it in their hearts to return to China.
From the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) until the modern period (1840–1919), scholars and rulers developed a male-dominated patriarchal society in China. [8] Patriarchy is a social and philosophical system where men are considered as superior to women, and thus men should have more power in decision-making than women. [9]
Shen Qing (living) fashion writer; Shen Rong (born 1936) fiction writer and essayist; Shen Shanbao (1808–1862) poet and writer; Shu Ting (born 1952) poet; Song Mingqiong (died 1802) poet; Song Ruolun (fl. 8th Century) one of the five Song Sisters; Song Ruoshen (died 820) primary author of Analects for Women, one of the Four Books for Women