The Standard for Glorification in the Form of Biography and the Significance of LIU Xiang's Biographies of Women.

In history studies about women were few and sources recording deeds of females are difficult to find.Biographies of Womenwritten by LIU Xiang during the Xihan Dynasty set a precedent. For the first time in history it records exclusively the deeds of women from time immemorial to the middle of Xihan Dynasty according to their social classes and strata, becoming the first exclusive and comprehensive history of women of ancient China. The liberalism of the standard for glorification in the form of a biography represents not only the author's lenient attitude to morality and ethics, but also embodies political and historical academic values incomparable by later female studies.