Women
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- Tsai, Kathryn, trans. Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
- Wang Shuhuai 王 樹 槐, compiler. Jin dai Zhongguo fu nu shi Zhung wen zi liao mu lu 近 代 中 國 婦 女 史 中 文 資 料 目 錄 (Index to Chinese sources on modern Chinese women’s history). Taibei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History, 1995.
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