Chinese Text Initiative

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Chinese Text Initiative

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Self-description: "[T]he Chinese Text Initiative, an effort to make texts of
Chinese literature available on the World Wide Web. These sites are still very
much under construction and we have not yet finished final copy-editing. [...]
For general conditions of use of the e-texts, see the statement of conditions. We
use Big5 encoding for Chinese texts at our sites. 300 Tang Poems, Gu Yao Yan
[Traditional Chinese Ballads and Proverbs], Shi Jing [Book of Odes], Hong Lou
Meng [The Dream of the Red Chamber], Yu Xuan Ji [The Clouds Float North: The
Complete Poems of Yu Xuan Ji]. [...] Lienu zhuan [Traditions of Exemplary Women]
and Chinese Literature in Translation [The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry /
Burton Watson, Chu Ci / Qu Yuan and Others, Fifty-five T'ang Poems / Hugh M.
Stimson, Mu Lan Poem/ Anonymous, Selected Stories of Lu Hsun / Lu Xun, Story
of the Stone / Cao Xueqin, Traditional Chinese Stories / Y.W. Ma and Joseph S.M.
Lau, Flowers in the Mirror]."

URL http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/index.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/index.html

Link reported by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under
300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000
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Lienu zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women)

Chinese Text Initiative, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Self-description: "Compiled toward the end of the Former Han dynasty (202 B.C.-
A.D. 9), Liu Xiang's (79-8 B.C.) Lienu zhuan [Traditions of Exemplary Women ...]
is the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral
education of women."

Site contents: Text Resources (Introduction [by Anne Behnke Kinney], Table of
Contents: Volume 1 - Scroll 1: Matronly Models [14 biographies], Scroll 2: The
Worthy and Enlightened [15 biographies], Volume 2 - Scroll 3: The Benevolent
and Wise [15 biographies], Scroll 4: The Chaste and Obedient [15 biographies],
Volume 3 - Scroll 5: The Principled and Righteous [15 biographies], Scroll 6: The
Accomplished Speakers [15 biographies], Volume 4 - Scroll 7: Depraved
Favorites [15 biographies], Scroll 8: Supplemental Biographies [20 biographies]),
Chinese Text [in Big5 encoding- ed.], Editorial Notes); Image Resources (Page
Turner Table of Contents, Page Images); Electronic Text Center; Chinese Text
Initiative.

URL http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/lienu/browse/Lienu.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/lienu/browse/Lienu.html