Biographies of Exemplary Women

first publication date:  -18
genre:  biography
original title:  列女傳
original language:  Classical Chinese

The Biographies of Exemplary Women (Chinese: 列女傳) is a book compiled by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang c. 18 BCE. It includes 125 biographical accounts of exemplary women in ancient China, taken from early Chinese histories including Chunqiu, Zuozhuan, and the Records of the Grand Historian. The book served as a standard Confucianist textbook for the moral education of women in traditional China for two millennia. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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