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Author:  Sherry Mou

As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians – all men – began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies are descriptive by nature, they actually became prescriptive. Gentlemen’s Prescriptions for Women’s Lives is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the Imperial era as well as for understanding Chinese womanhood in general. By contextualizing these biographies, the author shows us these women not just as the complaisant, calm-eyed, delicate figures that adorn Confucian texts, but also as the products of the Confucian tradition’s appropriation of women.

Gentlemen Prescriptions for Women Lives A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women 1st Table of contents:

1 From The Biographies of Women to the Biographies of Chaste Women
Introduction
Women in the Confucian Tradition
Women in the Classics
Other Collections About Women
Liu Xiang and The Biographies of Women (Lienü zhuan)
Biographies of Women in the Official Histories
The Nature of Chinese Biographies
Biographies of Empresses and Consorts
“Biographies of Women” Sections in Later Histories
The Gentlemen Historians
Summary of the Book
Notes

2 Appropriating Women Liu Xiang’s Lienü zhuan
Introduction
Rectification of the Name
The Formulaic Structure
The Biographies
Chapter I: The Exemplars of Mother
Chapter II: The Capable and Intelligent
Chapter III: The Benevolent and Wise
Chapter IV: The Determined and Obedient
Chapter V: The Principled and Righteous
Chapter VI: Those Able in Reasoning and Communication
Chapter VII: The Pernicious and the Depraved
Conclusion
Notes

3 Subjecting Women to Histories Hou Han shu and Jin shu
Introduction
Hou Han shu (History of the Later Han Dynasty [25–220])
Introduction (Xu)
Worthy Literati
Able Women
Chaste Women
Eulogy (Zan)
Jin shu (History of the Jin Dynasty [265–420])
Introduction (Xu)
Chastity
Competence
Learning
Instruction and Prescience
Filiality
Eulogy (Zan)
Conclusion
Notes
Illustrations for Biographies follow page 112

4 Reinventing Women Wei shu, Sui shu, and Bei shi
Introduction
Wei shu (History of the Wei Dynasty [386–556])
Chastity
Instruction and Learning
Prescience
Filiality
Revenge
Military Ability
Sui shu (History of the Sui Dynasty [581–618])
Widow Chastity
Learning and Instruction
Filiality and Revenge
Military Capacity and Loyalty
Bei shi (History of the Northern Dynasties [386–618])
Conclusion
Notes

5 Writing Virtues with Their Bodies Xin Tang shu and Jiu Tang shu
Introduction
The Paradigms: Chinese Womanhood of the Tang Dynasty (618–907)
The Rhetoric—Introductions and the Eulogy
The Examples—The Biographies
Filial Daughter
Dutiful Wife
Devoted Widow
Exemplary Mother
Interpreting the Inconsistencies: The Undercurrents in the Biographies
Notes

6 Conclusion A Biography Tradition That Is Not
Setting Examples: The Paradigm of Motherhood and the Separation of the Imperial and the Common
The Reintroduction of Women: Gendering Virtues
Official Honoring and Willful Oblivion: The Names of Women
From Signs to Symbols: Writing Chastity with Their Bodies
Toward a Coherent Reading of the Lienü zhuan Tradition
Notes

Appendix A.1 The Biographies of Women: Chapter Introductions
Appendix A.2 The Biographies of Women: Chapter and Biography Titles
Chapter 1 Mu yi, Maternal Exemplars 第一卷母儀傳
Chapter 2 Xian ming, Capable and Intelligent 第二卷賢明傳
Chapter 3 Ren zhi, Benevolent and Wise 第三卷仁智傳
Chapter 4 Zhen shun, Determined and Obedient 第四卷貞順傳
Chapter 5 Jie yi, Principled and Righteous 第五卷節義傳
Chapter 6 Bian tong, Reasoning and Communicating 第六卷辯通傳
Chapter 7 Nie bi, Pernicious and Depraved 第七卷孽嬖傳

Appendix A.3 The Biographies of Women: Biographies by Chapter
Chapter I—Biographies of the Exemplars of Mothers
Chapter II—Biographies of the Capable and Intelligent
Chapter III—Biographies of the Benevolent and Wise
Chapter IV—Biographies of the Determined and Obedient
Chapter V—Biographies of the Principled and Righteous
Chapter VI—Biographies of Those Able in Reasoning and Communication
Chapter VII—Biographies of the Pernicious and Depraved

Appendix B Dates and Compilers of “Biographies of Women” Chapters in the First Nineteen Official Histories
Appendix C.1 Introductions (Xu) and Eulogies (Zan) from “Biographies of Women” Chapters in the First Nineteen Official Histories
Hou Han shu
Introduction (Xu)
Eulogy (Zan)
Jin shu
Introduction (Xu)
Eulogy (Zan)
Wei shu
Introduction (Xu)
Sui shu
Introduction (Xu)
Eulogy (Zan)
Bei shi
Introduction (Xu)
Eulogy (Zan)
Jiu Tang shu
Introduction (Xu)
Eulogy (Zan)
Xin Tang shu
Introduction (Xu)
Notes

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