Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China

by Lisa Raphals

Book Overview

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. Warring States and Han dynasty narratives frequently represented women as intellectually adroit, politically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791438554
• ISBN13: 9780791438558
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.