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What Did Lessons for Women Actually Teach Han Dynasty Daughters? - Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women and Female Education in the Han Dynasty | Sleepy Facts About History
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In 92 CE, the Han dynasty scholar Ban Gu died in a Luoyang prison, leaving behind an unfinished history of the Western Han. The task of salvaging the manuscript fell to his sister, Ban Zhao. Summoned to the imperial archives, she completed the technical sections of the Book of Han, shaping the standard format for Chinese dynastic historiography for the next two thousand years. Yet she also wrote a very different kind of text: Lessons for Women, a private manual of conduct addressed to her…
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