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Empresses and Consorts: Selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three States with Pei Songzhi's Commentary PDF

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“This page left intentionally blank.” ile Page iii 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 Page iv © 1999 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 04 03 02. 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ch'en, Shou, 233-297. [San kuo chih. English. Selections] 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. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–8248–1945–4 (alk. paper) 1. Empresses—China. 2. China—Court and courtiers. 3. Women—China—History. 4. China—History—Three Kingdoms, 220–265. I. P'ei, Sung-chih, 372–451. II. Cutter, Robert Joe. III. Crowell, William Gordon. IV. Title. DS748.25.C49 199 98–41899 931'.04—dc21 CIP University of Hawai'i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Designed by Cameron Poulter Printed by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Start of Citation[PU]University of Hawaii Press[/PU][DP]1999[/DP]End of Citation Page v For Kay, Krista, Mei-yüeh, Alexis, Claudia, Erin, and in the memory of Barbara Start of Citation[PU]University of Hawaii Press[/PU][DP]1999[/DP]End of Citation “This page left intentionally blank.” Page vii Profound is the love between a wife and her husband. A ruler cannot obtain it from his ministers nor can a father obtain it from his sons. —Sima Qian, Shi ji Start of Citation[PU]University of Hawaii Press[/PU][DP]1999[/DP]End of Citation “This page left intentionally blank.” Page ix CONTENTS Preface xi Translators' Note xiii Part One: Prolegomenon 1 3 Introduction 2 9 Palace Women in the Early Empire 3 26 Women in Early Imperial History and Thought 4 46 Empresses and Consorts of the Three States 5 61 Records of the Three States Part Two: Translation Records of the Three States: The Book of Wei 89 Fascicle 5: Empresses and Consorts Records of the Three States: The Book of Shu 115 Fascicle 34: Consorts and Sons of the Two Sovereigns Records of the Three States: The Book of Wu 122 Fascicle 50: Consorts and Concubines Appendixes Appendix I: Tables 137 Appendix II: Character Count in the San guo zhi and Its Commentary 149 Abbreviations 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 229 Index 255 Maps follow page 81 Start of Citation[PU]University of Hawaii Press[/PU][DP]1999[/DP]End of Citation “This page left intentionally blank.”

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