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In 100 Celebrated Chinese Women, 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. Lu Yanguang's portraits in decorative style, succinctly capture the moods brought about by the unique circumstances these women were placed in.