Jabarkan Biografi termasuk dari Biographies of Exemplary Women

The mother of Mencius (孟子)

Consort Ban (班婕妤), Sarjana dan penyair

Empress Zhao Feiyan (趙飛燕) (skt. 32 SM – 1 SM), ratu dari tahun 16 SM hingga 7 SM

Permaisuri Wang (王皇后) (8 SM– 23 M), ratu terakhir Dinasti Han

Permaisuri Ma (馬皇后) (40-79 M), permaisuri dari tahun 60 hingga kematiannya pada tahun 79

Carlitz, Katherine. (1991). "The Social Uses of Female Virtue in Late Ming Editions of Lienu Zhuan." Late Imperial China 12.2: 117-48.

Raphals, Lisa. (1998). Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China. SUNY Press.

O'Hara, Albert Richard, tr. (1945). The position of woman in early China: according to the Lieh nu chuan, "The biographies of Chinese women". Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. 1955 reprint. Hong Kong: Orient Publishing Co. 1980 reprint. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press.