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Empresses and consorts

selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's commentary
Chen, Shou (233-297)
  
Empresses and Consorts
  
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[dedication]
  
[epigraph]
  
Contents
  
Preface
  
Translators' Note

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Prolegomenon
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1 Introduction
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2 Palace Women in the Early Empire
  
PRE-IMPERIAL CHINA
  
THE TRANSITION TO EMPIRE
  
PALACE WOMEN AND PALACE POLITICS
  
CONCLUSION
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Women in Early Imperial History and Thought
  
WOMEN IN PRE-QIN THOUGHT
  
HAN PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCIAL COMMENTATORS
  
PALACE WOMEN AND HAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
  
TEXTS DEVOTED TO WOMEN
  
CONCLUSION
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4 Empresses and Consorts of the Three States
  
MARRIAGE PATTERNS
  
SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CONSORTS AND POLITICAL POWER
  
HAREMS
  
CONCLUSION
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5 Records of the Three States
  
CHEN SHOU AND RECORDS OF THE THREE STATES
  
PEI SONGZHI AND HIS COMMENTARY
  
CRITICISMS AND CONTEXTS
  
THE DEATH OF EMPRESS ZHEN: A CASE STUDY
  
WHO IS INCLUDED?
  
CONCLUSION
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Translation
  
Records of the Three States: The Book of Wei
  
Records of the Three States: The Book of Shu
  
Records of the Three States: The Book of Wu

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Appendixes
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Appendix I: Tables
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Appendix II: Character Count in the San guo zhi and Its Commentary
  
Methodology
  
Results
  
Abbreviations
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Notes
  
Translators' Note
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PART ONE: PROLEGOMENON
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 2: Palace Women in the Early Empire
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Chapter 3: Women in Early Imperial History and Thought
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Chapter 4: Empresses and Consorts of the Three States
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Chapter 5: Records of the Three States
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PART TWO: TRANSLATION
  
The Book of Wei: Fascicle 5
  
The Book of Shu: Fascicle 34
  
The Book of Wu: Fascicle 50
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Bibliography
  
WORKS IN CHINESE, JAPANESE, AND KOREAN
  
WORKS IN WESTERN LANGUAGES
  
Index
  
About the Translators
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Empresses
and
Consorts

Selections from
Chen Shou's Records of the Three States
with Pei Songzhi's Commentary

Translated with Annotations and Introduction by
Robert Joe Cutter
and William Gordon Crowell

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS
HONOLULU
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