Ancient Women

25 books

Predecessors of Cleopatra cover
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Predecessors of Cleopatra North, Leigh, -1920 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Their History: Not Just Looms and Kitchen Stoves 张媛 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 Their History Is Not Just Looms and Stoves
Beyond the Inner Chambers: The Obscured World of Women in Chinese History cover
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Beyond the Inner Chambers: The Obscured World of Women in Chinese History 武海霞 北京真故传媒有限公司 · 2026 Beyond the Inner Chambers: The Obscured World of Women in Chinese History
Savoring China's Twelve Empresses: Women Who Moved Between the Inner Palace and the Outer Court cover
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Savoring China's Twelve Empresses: Women Who Moved Between the Inner Palace and the Outer Court 陈泰先 China Commercial Publishing House · 2026 This book tells the little-known stories of twelve powerful empresses and consorts from the pre-Qin period to the Qing dynasty, from Zhao Ji to Empres…
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Women's History Talk Show 巫解 Gansu People's Fine Arts Publishing House · 2025 Women's Historical Talk Show features 36 women—36 famous women from the Zhou dynasty to the Qing dynasty. They are almost all peerless beauties, and t…
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Give Me Beauty (Part One) 谢遥岑 · 2025 "How much dust from the mortal world does it take to bury a woman?" When Yu Xiuhua's question cuts across a thousand years, Shuse for Her: Volume One …
A Fascinating History of Law: Mulan Is Nameless, Tiying Is Traceless: Women's Joys and Sorrows from the Perspective of Legal History cover
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A Fascinating History of Law: Mulan Is Nameless, Tiying Is Traceless: Women's Joys and Sorrows from the Perspective of Legal History 张田田 Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025 This book is a study of legal and cultural history that examines the fate of women in ancient China. From the perspective of legal history, it analyze…
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Secret Book of the Purple Boudoir 杏溪浣香主人 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long and profound intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. …
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Compilation of Models for Women 黄尚文 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought are highly distinc…
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Mirror for Women 夏树芳 · 2024 Chinese traditional culture has a long intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Early modes o…
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Records of Jealousy 虞通之 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are especially …
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Meng Man's Lessons on Women's Poetry: A Beauty of the State Meng Man Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Teacher Meng Man entered the public eye through her talks on poetry, but as a university professor her research field is ancient history, especially t…
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Zhao Pan'er Rescues a Courtesan Guan Hanqing / 黄仕忠 Phoenix Books, Ltd. · 2023 Zhao Pan'er Saves a Courtesan (also known as Jiu Fengchen) is the most representative comedy by Guan Hanqing, the great Yuan dynasty playwright. It te…
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Records of Gathered Treasures 罗素恩 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2021 Research on Chinese women's history has only just begun outside China, and the treasure trove of works by Chinese women still awaits exploration by sc…
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The Princess Consort 九尾小妖 · 2022 In the ancient inner quarters, a woman's survival is hard enough—but she is determined to rise to the top. The body is merely a shell; what matters mo…
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Modern Chinese Spoken Drama 黄莹 Jilin University Press · 2020 This book examines issues related to the marriage and courtship of ancient women as represented in modern Chinese drama, focusing primarily on three g…
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Where Does Aura Come From 李筱懿 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 When it comes to presence, it is either "powerful" or "fully unleashed"—but is that the only type of presence? Of course not. Presence integrates know…
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Telling Chinese Stories, Savoring the Lives of Gifted Scholars and Beauties 鲜于春 Huayue Jingdian Books (Huayue Classic Books) · 2022 Wang Baochuan was originally the daughter of Wang Yun, a chancellor at the court of Emperor Yizong of Tang. Wang Yun had no sons, only three lovely da…
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Romance of Zhaojun's Amorous History Anonymous · 2019 In the grand realm of China, before the arrogance of the Chanyu, there were no brave generals or elite troops to defend the borders and repel the enem…
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Lectures on Female Figures in the Records of the Grand Historian 张苏榕 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This book offers an interpretive assessment of the female figures in the Shiji. Its main body is divided into eight thematic sections, respectively in…