Document Type
Article - On Campus Only
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Based on original texts this essay attempts to describe two main conceptual constructions and practices of ideal womanhood in the Chinese tradition: Lienu (exemplary women) as the Confucian social inspirations for women and Kundao (way of female) as the Daoist commitment to bodily and spiritual transformation.
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
“Ideal Womanhood in Chinese Thought and Culture” Philosophy Compass, 2010, Vol 5: Issue 8, pp. 635–644.
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