The 1910 image shows a Woodcut from the Book of Famous Women. Here a lady is shown with her son. The Biographies of Exemplary Women is a book compiled by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang c. 18 BC. It includes 125 biographical accounts of exemplary women in ancient China, taken from early Chinese histories including Chunqiu, Zuozhuan, and the Records of the Grand Historian. The book served as a standard Confucianist textbook for the moral education of women in traditional China for two millennia.

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