100 celebrated Chinese women / written by Cai Zhuozhi ; illustrated by Lu Yanguang ; translated by Kate Foster

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100 Series art album by Lu Yanguang is the first successful full-scale attempt to depict historical and legendary Chinese characters in drawings. In this first volume, Lu Yanguang captures the spirit of some of China's most influential and famous women. Spanning over two thousand years of China's history, the characters in this collection reflect the many and varied roles which women have played throughout the ages. Popular culture has made of them warriors and weaklings, sages and fools, chaste maidens and sirens. Their lives and experiences have spawned everything from idioms and old wives' tales to religious cults.