Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for Women and a standard reference for them from the first century AD all the way into the nineteenth.
Although Ban Zhao completed a monu.
A writer, historian, mathematician, and astronomer, she was also a tutor to the ladies of the imperial court and a close confidant of Empress Deng.
Polymath author Ban Zhao was perhaps China\'s greatest female scholar.
Little known today, Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls has a storied place in Chinese history as the first educational text for Women and a standard reference for them from the first century AD all the way into the nineteenth