Pan Chao, foremost woman scholar of China, first century A.D.: background, ancestry, life, and writings of the most celebrated Chinese woman of letters

Frontmatter INTRODUCTION (page xi) PART I PAN CHAO'S WORLD I THE AGE IN WHICH SHE LIVED (page 3) II THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE IN WHICH PAN CHAO LIVED (page 12) PART II PAN CHAO'S FAMILY III HER ANCESTRY, HER FATHER, AND HER TWO ELDER BROTHERS (page 25) IV THE LIFE OF PAN CHAO (page 40) PART III PAN CHAO'S LITERARY LABORS V HER SHARE IN THE HAN SHU (page 61) VI TWO MEMORIALS (page 74) VII LESSONS FOR WOMEN (page 82) VIII THREE SHORT POEMS (page 100) IX TRAVELLING EASTWARD (page 113) PART IV A REPRESENTATIVE CHINESE WOMAN X THE MORALIST (page 133) XI HER PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE (page 140) XII THE WOMAN OF LETTERS (page 145) LIST OF TRANSLATIONS AND THEIR CHINESE SOURCES (page 156) INDEX (page 165)