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Women Hidden In Historical Narratives
- History often erases women, making historical narratives effectively "books of men."
- Recovering female figures reshapes how we understand political and social history.
Reframing The Yue Fei Story
-倪湛舸 revisits the Yue Fei story to uncover omitted female actors in military and court life.
- She shows women once managed camps, gangs, and diplomacy but were later erased from mainstream histories.
Myths Simplify Complex Figures
- Nationalist or heroic tales compress complexity into binaries like 'gentlemen' and 'villains.'
- Re-telling figures like Yue Fei reveals gaps and ambivalences in nation-building myths.


