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

344 Pages·1999·7.19 MB·English

by  Shou Chen

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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
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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.
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For Kay,
Krista,
Mei-yüeh,
Alexis,
Claudia,
Erin,
and in the memory of Barbara
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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
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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
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