Publication

1998 - State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

87,000 words, Guess

Page Count

348 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number97043324
  • LibraryThing3480495
  • Goodreads2123259

Classifications

  • DDC305.4/0951
  • LCCHQ1767 .R36 1998

Alternate Titles

  • Representations of women and virtue in early China.

Description

Sharing the Light explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early centuries of the Chinese state. These changes had far-reaching effects on both the treatment of women in Chinese society and on the formation of Chinese philosophical discourse on ethics, cosmology, epistemology, and self-cultivation.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

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