Sharing the Light
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Lisa Raphals is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Chair, Asian Studies Program, Bard College. She is the author of Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece.
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Introduction: Gender and Virtue
Women As Intellectual and Moral Agents
The Differentiation of Men and Women
Contents
1. Women As Agents of Virtue and Destruction
Women and Ministers: Ties That Bind
Female Virtue and the Dynastic Cycle
The Lienü zhuan
The Intellectual Virtue Stories
Heroization
2. Women As Prescient Counselors
Instruction
Sage Intelligence
Benevolent Wisdom and Prescience
Skill in Argument and Admonition
Intellectual Virtue Stories in Other Warring States and Han Works
Biographical Formulae
Two Modes of Thinking?
Conclusions
3. Demonic Beauties and Usurpatious Regents
Warring States Legends of Destructive Women
Empress Lü
Virtuous and Vicious Consorts of Han Cheng Di
Conclusions
4. The Textual Matrix of the Lienü zhuan
Lienü zhuan Stories in Warring States Sources
The Lienü zhuan Text and Its Attribution to Liu Xiang
Conclusions
5. Talents Transformed in Ming Editions
Ming Publishing
Shifting Virtues
Illustrated Editions
Conclusions
6. Yin and Yang
Yin-Yang As Two of Six Qi
Yin-Yang As (Ultimate) Polarity
Correlative Cosmology
Conclusions
7. Yin-Yang in Medical Texts
The Fifty-two Ailments and Mawangdui Medical Literature
The Twenty-five Cases of Chunyu Yi
The Huang Di neijing
Conclusions
8. Nei-wai : Distinctions between Men and Women
Zhou Norms in the Changes and Odes
Correct Distinction between Men and Women Defines Civilization
Conclusions
9. Nei-wai in Ritual Texts and Social Practice
Subordination of Women
Monogamy and Marriage Choice
Physical Separation of Men and Women
Names, Ranks, Titles, and Social Identity
Intellectual Distinction between Men and Women
Conclusions
10. Instruction Texts
Ban Zhao's Admonitions for Women
The Decline of the "Learned Instructress" Motif
The Rise of Instruction Texts
Conclusions
Afterword
Appendix 1: The Lienü zhuan
Chapter Titles
Dateable Incidents in the Life Stories
Appendix 2: The Intellectual Virtue Stories
Synopsis of the Intellectual Virtue Stories
The Learned Instructress Motif
Appendix 3: Vicious and Depraved Women
The Destructive Women of Lienü zhuan 7
Biographies of Empress Lü
Biographical Formulae in the Lienü zhuan, Shi ji, and Han shu
Appendix 4: The Textual Matrix for the Lienü zhuan
Chronology of Lienü zhuan Editions
Provenance of the Lienü zhuan Intellectual Virtue Stories
Appendix 5: Ming Transformations
The Intellectual Virtue Stories in Ming Editions
The Gui fan Reclassification of the Lienü zhuan Intellectual Virtue Stories
Appendix 6: Yin-Yang in Warring States Texts
Appendix 7: The Medical Cases of Shi ji 105
Summary of the Twenty-five Cases
Treatment Methods and Outcomes of the Twenty-five Cases
Appendix 8: Occupations and Activities
Appendix 9: Traditional Reign Dates
Bibliography
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Index
