Sharing the light
Subtitle: representations of women and virtue in early China
By: Lisa Raphals.
Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Liu, Xiang, 77?-6? B.C.; Women -- China -- History.; Women -- China -- Conduct of life.; Women -- China -- Social conditions.; China -- History -- Warring States, 403-221 B.C.; China -- History -- Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.
Other titles: Representations of women and virtue in early China.
Description: Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese philosophical discourse on ethics, cosmology, epistemology, and self-cultivation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (P. 309-332) and index.