Women / Persons ~ P12132
Wives, concubines and courtesans
Alternate Names:
- Chao Fei-yen
- Pan Chieh-yu
- Flying Swallow
- Yang Kuei-fei
- Sun Shou
- Hsi Shih
- P'an Fei
- Round Faced Beauty
Gender: Female
Life Dates:
Types:
- Anonymous set
- Asian, East
- Beauty, celebrated
- Enslaved person, bondservant, former enslaved person
- Legendary
- Mistress of aristocrat
- Mistress of royalty
- Model of domesticity
- Performer, dancer
Note: General description of Confucian ideals of married womanhood and historical anecdotes about named courtesans and concubines of Chinese aristocrats during the imperial period. The alternative names section lists all such women mentioned.