Sherry J Mou: 1 book
Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians - all men - began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate...
