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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-307-75933-7. OCLC 681617682. (The Woman Warrior at the Internet Archive, available only to patrons with print disabilities.) Kwa, Shiamin; Idema, Wilt L. (2010). Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend with Related Texts.
Maxine Hong Kingston (Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. [4]
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
Lady Triệu (Vietnamese: Bà Triệu, [ɓàː t͡ɕiə̂ˀu], Chữ Nôm: 婆趙, died 248 CE) or Triệu Ẩu ([t͡ɕiə̂ˀu ʔə̂u], Chữ Hán: 趙嫗) was a female warrior in 3rd century Vietnam who managed, for a time, to resist the rule of the Chinese Eastern Wu dynasty.
Wu then posted notices for her unit in Hanyang, [3] while like-minded women produced propaganda for her militia. For example, Liu Wangli likened Wu to the legendary woman warrior Hua Mulan in order to inspire other women to enlist. [4] The recruitment drive was a success, and hundreds women tried to join Wu's unit. [3]
Wang Cong'er (Chinese: 王 聰 兒; pinyin: Wáng Cōng'ér, c. 1777–1798) was a female Chinese leader of anti-Manchu White Lotus Rebellion along with Wang Nangxian during the reign of the Qing dynasty.
What is known is that King Wu Ding cultivated the allegiance of neighbouring tribes by marrying one woman from each of them. Fu Hao (who was believed to be one of the king's 64 wives) entered the royal household through such a marriage and took advantage of the semi-matriarchal slave society to rise through the ranks [6] to become one of King Wu Ding's three consorts.