Sharing the light

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: Women,  History,  Social conditions,  Conduct of life,  Women, china,  Women in art,  Virtue and virtues,  Women in literature,  Femmes,  Histoire,  Morale pratique,  Conditions sociales,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Women's Studies,  Han Dynasty (China),  Lie nü zhuan (Liu, Xiang)

People: Xiang Liu (77?-6? B.C)

Places: China

Times: Warring States, 403-221 B.C.,  Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.