Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls Ban Zhao
Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls Ban Zhao Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a…
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Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls Ban Zhao
Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for women and a standard reference for them from the first century AD all the way into the nineteenth. A writer, historian, mathematician, and astronomer, she was also a tutor to the ladies of the imperial court and a close confidant of Empress Deng. Polymath author Ban Zhao was perhaps China's greatest female scholar.
A kind of women's Art of War, there is more yielding than winning in the guidebook, but at least Ban Zhao was a pioneer in asserting that girls should be Although Ban Zhao completed a monumental historical tome on the Western Han dynasty, she would be best remembered for this slighter work - a short handbook of female etiquette in which she advises submissiveness in order to achieve household harmony.