Empresses and consorts : selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's commentary
"Early imperial China was comparable to the better studied Song and Ming-Qing transition periods in defining the role of Chinese women in government and society. The creation of imperial institutions and the attendant philosophic, economic, and social changes led to a fundamental transformation in the place of women. Symptomatic of these broader developments was the changing status of palace women in particular. Empresses and Consorts begins with a critical overview of developments in thought and institutions affecting palace women from earliest times through the Han, and shows how attitudes changed over time. The core of the book is a meticulous and richly annotated translation of the three fascicles of Chen Shou's (233-297) Records of the Three States (San guo zhi) devoted to palace women. Here rendered into English for the first time, these chapters provide important insights into the worlds of palace women and court politics, while revealing much about the lives of upper-class women in general at the close of the third century."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Hawaiʻi Press, Honolulu, ©1999
History
xvi, 280 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm
9780824819453, 0824819454
39838812
Palace Women in the Early Empire
Women in Early Imperial History and Thought
Empresses and Consorts of the Three States
Records of the Three States
Records of the Three States: The Book of Wei
Fascicle 5: Empresses and Consorts
Records of the Three States: The Book of Shu
Fascicle 34: Consorts and Sons of the Two Sovereigns
Records of the Three States: The Book of Wu
Fascicle 50: Consorts and Concubines
App. II. Character Count in the San guo zhi and Its Commentary
Translated from the Chinese