Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644-1911

by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska

Overview

The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide array of original sources, these detailed biographies present the lives, work, and significance of more than 200 Chinese women from many different backgrounds and areas of interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765600431
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/1998
Series:	Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women Series
Pages:	600
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.28(d)

About the Author

Lily Xiao Hong Lee was bom in Jiangxi, China, and after 1949 lived in Hong Kong, British Malaya, Singapore, and the United States before moving to Australia in 1971. She became the Oriental Librarian of the University of Sydney, and although by then mother to four children, she completed her PhD and became lecturer in the School of Asian Studies. In the meantime, she has produced two books and numerous research papers and journal articles on Chinese women and the literature of the Wei-Jin period., The Qing Period Editor Clara Wing-chung Ho, A. D. Stefanowska was until recently senior lecturer at the University of Sydney where she taught Classical Chinese for 30 years. She is currently honorary research associate at that university. Since 1984 she has been editor of the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia and, since 1988, co-editor of the University of Sydney East Asian Series. Her current research interest is the literature of the Sung dynasty., The Qing Period Editor Clara Wing-chung Ho, Clara Wing-chung Ho was born in Hong Kong. She is now associate professor in History at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her current research interests include historical attitudes towards Chinese women and the development and content of children’s education in imperial China.

Editorial Reviews

Brings together detailed biographies of Chinese women of the period. Apart from a few semi-fictional characters, all of the women were historical personages of outstanding achievement in a field of study, profession, or trade, or had some special influence on their own era or on posterity. Many were palace concubines, scholars, writers, artists, doctors, reformers, and craftswomen. Includes a chronological list of Qing dynasty emperors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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