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 An 11th-century woodblock print of the book | |
| Author | Liu Xiang |
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| Original title | 列女傳 |
| Language | Classical Chinese |
| Genre | Biography |
Publication date | c. 18 BCE |
| Publication place | Han China |
| 920.051 | |
| LC Class | PG3366.S6 |
Original text | 列女傳 at Chinese Wikisource |
| Biographies of Exemplary Women | |||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 列女傳 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 列女传 | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | arrayed biographies of women | ||||||||||||||||
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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.
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