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Author Yan, Jinfen, 1948-

Title The philosophical meditations of Lady Wang : ethics and gender in imperial China / by Jinfen Yan
Published Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents The Philosophical Meditations of Lady Wang: Ethics and Gender in Imperial China; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgement; Transliteration; Introduction -- Ethics and Gender: An Inclusive View for the Study of the Plaint of Lady Wang; Chapter One -- Beauty and Reason Ethical and Philosophical Conceptions; Chapter Two -- Self as Moral Agent: Identity; Chapter Three -- In Search of a Neo-Confucian Model of Feminist Consciousness: Lady Wang, Zhu Xi, J.S. Mill and Consciousness Raising
Chapter Four -- Mystics and the Wisdom Within Woman's Religious Experience and Existential ChoiceThe Plaint of Lady Wang; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Glossary; Bibliography
Summary This refreshing work draws upon a multitude of fields including philosophy and psychology from both the eastern and western traditions in order to construct an inclusive view of ethics and gender. The goal is to better understand the crucial role that group awareness plays in advocating support in gender justice issues. This study includes the first ever English translation of the epic 12th Century work, Plaint of Lady Wang
Notes "Together with the first translation from Chinese into English of the 'Plaint of Lady Wang' by Jinfen Wang."
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Subject Philosophy -- China -- History
Ethics -- China -- Gender
Methodology.
methodology.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Methodology
Philosophy
China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773407442
0773407448