A Comparison of the Representations of Women in Zuozhuan and Shiji

From Chunqiu and Zuozhuan to Shiji, women have experienced a downgrade of their formal status in historical records. In Shiji, women, the wives of dukes, lost their formal equality with their duke husbands in terms of being written into state history, as we see in Chunqiu. Their activities, includin...

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Main Author: Zheng, Xiucai
Other Authors: Durrant, Stephen
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12471