page_title: Biographies of Exemplary Women
hierarchical_section_title: Biographies of Exemplary Women
caption_attribution_description: A woodcut inbetween of Lie Nu Zhuan, 11th century, China.
context_page_description: The Biographies of Exemplary Women 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.
context_section_description: The Biographies of Exemplary Women (Chinese: 列女傳; pinyin: Liènǚ Zhuàn) 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.
caption: An 11th-century woodblock print of the book
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