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Exemplary Women of Early China

The Lien zhuan of Liu Xiang

By: Anne Behnke Kinney

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Exemplary Women of Early China

The Lien zhuan of Liu Xiang

By: Anne Behnke Kinney

When should a woman disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the policy of a ruler? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it is not only appropriate but necessary for women to offer counsel when fathers, husbands, sons, and rulers stray from virtue. The earliest Chinese text devoted to the moral education of women, the Lienü zhuan was compiled by Liu Xiang (79–8 B.C.E.) at the end of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.–9 C.E.) and recounts the deeds of both virtuous and wicked women. Informed by early legends, fictionalized historical accounts, and formal speeches on statecraft, the text taught generations of Chinese women to cultivate filial piety and maternal kindness and undertake such practices as suicide and self-mutilation to preserve chastity and reform wayward men. The Lienü zhuan’s stories inspired artists for a millennium and found their way into local and dynastic histories. An innovative work for its time, the text remains a critical tool for mapping women’s social, political, and domestic roles at a formative time in China’s development.

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Columbia University Press

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0231163096

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Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

By: Anne Behnke Kinney

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Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

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This is the first book in any language to inquire into the emergence of childhood as a topic of significant cultural attention in Han times, as expressed in the intellectual discourse surrounding early Chinese cosmology, medicine, law, statecraft, and dynastic history.

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Stanford University Press

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0804747318

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Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

By: Anne Behnke Kinney

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Exemplary Women of Early China

The Lien zhuan of Liu Xiang

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0231163088

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The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China

By: Grant R. Hardy,Anne Behnke Kinney

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The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China

By: Grant R. Hardy,Anne Behnke Kinney

The Han Dynasty created a Chinese empire that endures to this day.

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228

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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031332588X

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9780313325885

An Odd Cross to Bear

A Biography of Ruth Bell Graham

By: Anne Blue Wills

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An Odd Cross to Bear

A Biography of Ruth Bell Graham

By: Anne Blue Wills

The fascinating life story, told critically but sympathetically, of a paragon of twentieth-century white Christian womanhood—and the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Ruth Bell Graham’s legacy is closely associated with that of her husband, whose career placed her in the public eye throughout her life. But, while it’s true that her identity was significantly shaped by her role in supporting Billy Graham’s ministry, Ruth carried a strong sense of her own agency and was widely influential in her own right, especially in the image she projected of conservative evangelical womanhood—defined by a faith that was deep, private, and nonpolitical. Beginning prior to Ruth and Billy’s meeting at Wheaton College, Anne Blue Wills chronicles the many formative experiences of Ruth’s life—especially the first decade of her childhood living in a community of American medical missionaries in China. Throughout the biography, Wills focuses not on Ruth’s role in Billy’s life, but on her own interests, ambitions, and fears—as a devoted mother of five, as the fastidious manager of a household, as a devout and well-read Christian, and as a beloved writer and poet. Dealing honestly with a life of contradictory responsibilities that Ruth Bell Graham herself called “an odd kind of cross to bear,” Wills draws from nearly a decade of original research and presents a nuanced portrait of Graham apart from the reverential awe of her admirers and the oversimplified caricatures put forth by her detractors. In telling Graham’s story, Wills indirectly tells the story of millions of women who emulated Graham as a role model—women who spurned second-wave feminism and willingly submitted to patriarchy while maintaining an undeniable sense of independence and strength of conviction.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467462632

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Big and Little Histories

Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

By: Marnie Hughes-Warrington,Anne Martin

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Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography

By: Marnie Hughes-Warrington,Anne Martin

This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to histories made across the world and from ancient times until today, readers are introduced to a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of history, including well-known ethical approaches, such as the virtue ethics of universal historians, and utilitarian approaches to collective biography writing while also discovering new and emerging ideas in the ethics of history. Through these approaches, readers are encouraged to challenge their ideas about whether humans are separate from other living and non-living things and whether machines and animals can write histories. The book looks to the fundamental questions posed about the nature of history making by Indigenous history makers and asks whether the ethics at play in the global variety of histories might be better appreciated in professional codes of conduct and approaches to research ethics management. Opening up the topic of ethics to show how historians might have viewed ethics differently in the past, the book requires no background in ethics or history theory and is open to all of those with an interest in how we think about good histories.

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Routledge

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0429681208

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9780429681202

Book's by Anne Behnke Kinney

Exemplary Women of Early China

Exemplary Women of Early China

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

Representations of Childhood and Youth in Early China

Exemplary Women of Early China

Exemplary Women of Early China

The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China

The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China

An Odd Cross to Bear

An Odd Cross to Bear

Big and Little Histories

Big and Little Histories

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