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Zhao Ban Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
- Publication Name
- Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
- Title
- Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
- Translator
- Esther E Jerman
- Contributor
- Susan Blumberg-Kason (Introduction by)
- Format
- Paperback
- EAN
- 9781910736579
- ISBN
- 9781910736579
- Publisher
- Camphor Press Ltd
- Genre
- Fashion & Design
- Subject
- History
- Release Year
- 2017
- Release Date
- 19/06/2017
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 152mm
- Item Length
- 102mm
- Item Width
- 6mm
- Item Weight
- 68g
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Camphor Press
ISBN-10
1910736570
ISBN-13
9781910736579
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038654016
Product Key Features
Language
English
Publication Name
Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls
Subject
Women, Etiquette, Asia / China
Publication Year
2017
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Référence, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
2.4 Oz
Item Length
6 in
Item Width
4 in
Additional Product Features
Illustrated
Yes
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a standard reference for them from the first century AD all the way into the nineteenth. Polymath author Ban Zhao was perhaps China's greatest female scholar. A writer, historian, mathematician, and astronomer, she was also a tutor to the ladies of the imperial court and a close confidant of Empress Deng. Although Ban Zhao completed a monumental historical tome on the Western Han dynasty, she would be best remembered for this slighter work - a short handbook of female etiquette in which she advises submissiveness in order to achieve household harmony. A kind of women's Art of War, there is more yielding than winning in the guidebook, but at least Ban Zhao was a pioneer in asserting that girls should be educated. Instructions for Chinese Girls and Women is an easy, enjoyable read. It contains passages preaching subservience that will make the modern reader cringe and/or laugh, but there is interesting nuance there for readers with an open mind. The husband commands, the wife obeys; Yet let there be mutual grace and love; There are timeworn, universal complaints: The present generation's children are very bad; They have learned nothing. And there are humorous warnings against immoral immodesty: Imitate not those rude women who with confusion eat, drink, and talk; Drinking wine until crazy, they shamefully vomit their food; In this state going home, before reaching their house, many shameful, rude acts will they do. This Camphor Press edition has illustrations and a new introduction from Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of the memoir Good Chinese Wife., Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Girls and Women has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a standard reference for them from the first century AD all the way into the nineteenth.
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