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Biographies of Exemplary Women (Liu Xiang)

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Biographies of Exemplary Women (Liu Xiang)
A Western Han work by Liu Xiang in seven volumes, categorizing women into seven types to promote female virtue; the earliest and most influential work of its kind
Biographies of Exemplary Women (Huangfu Mi)
A Western Jin work by Huangfu Mi, now mostly lost, which expanded on Liu Xiang's work to include women from the Eastern Han
Biographies of Exemplary Women (Fan Ye)
A section in the Book of the Later Han 后汉书 hòu​hàn​shū containing biographies of seventeen notable women