Wang Zhaoyuan (王照圓 ;Shandong, 4 October 1763–1851) was a Chinese female Confucian scholar and writer. Unusually for a woman scholar, she was distinguished by her philological scholarship, not poetry.[1] Her main work consists of annotations to Liu Xiang's (79-8 BCE) Biographies of Exemplary Women (Lienü Zhuan) and the Lives of the Taoist Transcendents (Liexian Zhuan).[2][3] She also shared Liu Xiang's interest in the interpretation of dreams.[4]
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- ^ John Hay Boundaries in China 1994 0948462388 p. 326 "Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851), a Shandong woman distinguished by her philological scholarship, not poetry, was a notable exception."
- ^ Harriet T. Zurndorfer, "Beyond Good Wifehood and Good Scholarship: Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851) and the Vanished 'Talented Women,"' in Different Worlds of Discourse: New Views of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China ed. Nanxiu Qian, Grace S. Fong, Richard Joseph Smith 2008 9004167765 p.41: "A Brief Narrative of Wang Zhaoyuan's Life History and Writings Wang was born on the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month in the twenty-eighth year of the Qianlong reign (4 October 1763), in the village of Hebei Fushan county, ..."
- ^ Anne Behnke Kinney Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lien zhuan of Liu Xiang 2014 "Wang Zhaoyuan understands the phrase “a woman comports herself with propriety and dignity” as meaning that a woman should move straight ahead and not lean or look from side to side. See Wang Zhaoyuan (1763–1851), Lienü zhuan ..."
- ^ Junjie Huang, Erik J. Zürcher Norms and the State in China Chapter - The Propagation of Female Ideals: p.101
