Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary

by Shou Chen and Robert Joe Cutter

This is a critical overview of developments in thought and institutions affecting palace women from earliest times through to the Han, showing how attitudes changed over time. The core of the book is an annotated translation of the three fascicles of Chen Shou's Records of the Three States.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824819454
• ISBN13: 9780824819453
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"