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- Publisher
- University of Hawai'I Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2008 University of Hawai'i Press.
- ISSN
- 1529-1898
Abstract
<p> This essay examines the relationship between <i>li</i> 禮 and <i>yi</i> 義 in Liu Xiang’s åŠ‰å‘ <i>Categorized Biographies of Women</i> or <i>Lienü zhuan</i> 列女傳, the first Chinese monograph devoted to women, focusing on the contents of books 4 and 5, where Liu Xiang introduces radical ideas like self-mutilation, suicide, and compulsory separation of the sexes. Although these moral devices are employed as an instrument of remonstrance, giving women a voice that had long been neglected, they are also the result of the deontic prescriptions of <i>li-</i>binding obligations, which keep the self in silence and subjection. </p>
Journal
Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jul 12, 2017