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Lessons for Women

Overview

Lessons for Women (Chinese: 女誡), also translated as Admonitions for Women, Women's Precepts, or Warnings for Women, is a work by the Han dynasty female intellectual Ban Zhao (45/49–117/120 CE). As one of the Four Books for Women, Lessons had wide circulation in the late Ming and Qing dynasties (i.e. 16th–early 20th centuries). Ban Zhao made the "Admonitions for Women" for her daughters.

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Philosophers who discussed Lessons for Women

• Ban Zhao

Related ideas

• Dualism in cosmology
• Yin and yang
• Han dynasty
• Chinese language
• Ban Zhao

Place in the tradition

Part of Confucianism.

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