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*''Born: [[45]]''
*''Died: [[116]]''

Ban Zhao was a prominent writer of the [[Han Dynasty]], known chiefly for her ''Admonitions for Women'', a guide for women's upright behavior. In it, Ban identifies seven chief virtues for a woman to cultivate: humility, subservience, cleanliness, industriousness, obedience, self-abasement, and resignation.

Her brother [[Ban Gu]] was also a prominent historian of the time.

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==References==
*[[Albert M. Craig]], ''The Heritage of Chinese Civilization'', Third Edition, Prentice Hall (2011), 36. 

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