Li Ju-chen
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Li Ju-chen (李汝珍) (1763-1830) or Li Ruzhen was a Chinese linguist and author of a famous novel in one hundred chapters, Ching-hua-yüan (Flowers in the Mirror), which he wrote between 1810 and 1820. In the novel, Li Ju-chen draws satirical effects from the depiction of an imaginary country of women, based on an ancient myth in China, in which the status of the sexes is the reverse of that in the Ch'ing empire.
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- Gernet, Jacques (1996). A History of Chinese Civilization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-49781-7
