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Chinese Women.

Publication: Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
Publication Date: 22-DEC-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Chinese Women.(NEW REFERENCE WORKS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES)(Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity through Sui, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E.)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Lily Xiao Hong Lee & A.D. Stefanowska, eds.-in-chief, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE WOMEN: ANTIQUITY THROUGH SUI, 1600 B.C.E.-618 C.E. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. (University of Hong Kong Libraries publications no. 21.) 440p. glossary. $99.95, ISBN 978-0-7656-1750-7.

Over the past decades, women's studies has become firmly established as an academic discipline. New works on Chinese women are being published at a rate previously unimaginable. This English-language edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, the third in a multivolume series, covers a period of two thousand years. Intended as a summary of existing knowledge and information, the volume contains a wide range of articles, varying greatly in quality, content, and style, written by about fifty co-authors.

In the opening pages, the editors provide a "Finding List by Background or Fields or Endeavor," grouped according to occupation or...

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