Women in Ancient and Medieval China
The Analects full text but poorly formatted.
The Four Most Beautiful Women in Ancient China this site has some obvious grammatical errors, but the information is interesting.
Lessons for A Woman:The Views of A Female Confucian by Pan Chao, the Han woman who completed her brother's history of the Dynasty.
The Problem of Woman Pan Chao
Pan Chao from Other Women's Voices
Poem on Woman by Fu Xuan
On Chinese Women Marco Polo's account of Chinese women from his journey through thirteenth century China.
Empress Wu from Infamous Women. Okay, it is a gaudy-looking page, but it has a decent account of the life of Wu.
Empress Wu Zetian from Women in World History
A Portrait of Empress Wu and Her Writing
Qianling Tomb of the Tang Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian this is a fairly detailed description of the joint tomb of the Emperor and his famous concubine-later-Empress, Wu Zetian.
Tomb of Princess Yongtai, daughter of the Empress Wu
"Women Hold up Half the Sky" Dr. Vess's account of her visit to China in 1993. While quite a bit of this site deals with women in modern China, there is a discussion of women in the ancient and medieval periods, as well as tours of a Cloisonne factory and a peasants' village.
Snake Women of China mythology and women
A Celebration of Women Writers: China
One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise a student paper on Paul Halsall's Chinese Culture site
The Legend of Miao-Shan
Miao-Shan is the female form of the bodisattva Kuan-yin.The Tale of Mulan, the Maiden Chief, from the Women's History Sourcebook. Mulan was a heroic Chinese woman virgin warrior
Chinese Cultural Studies: Women in China, Past and Present
Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people by Isaac Taylor Headland. Account of the imperial court and of the Empress Dowager. From Paul Halsall's East Asian Sourcebook
The Woman with the Cross Account of a seventeenth-century Chinese Christian woman.
Modern Chinese Women
Women: Status and Personal Stories excellent site, but focusus on modern China.
Fourth World Conference on Women links to the conference held in Huajro, China, in 1995
Ethnography and Video: Researching Women in China's Floating Population a study of some of the problems of modern Chinese women in the urban areas of China.
The Changing Role and Status of Women in China
China's Women Fight Kitchen Culture battle of modern women in rural China against old stereotypes
Women in China report on abuses of human rights by Amnesty International
Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China learn about women's language in Hunan province. In particular, follow the links at the bottom of the page
China 2000: Women in China Today
Violence Against Women under China's Economic Modernisation
Born to be Second Class: In China, Old Biases Aginst Women have Emrged Again
A Holocaust of Little Girls, by Tom Hilditch. From Paul Halsall's Chinese Cultural Studies Site.
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