This is a one-of-a-kind book, which will motivate generations of girls and women for years to come, The Female Lead is a collection of portraits - in their own words - of over 50 inspirational women who changed the world around them. With stunning photography and heartfelt, personal interviews, this will inspire a whole generation of young women. 'A truly inspirational book' -- ***** Reader review 'Beautifully written and illustrated' -- ***** Reader review 'A beautiful, inspiring book' -- ***** Reader review 'Loved it! Truly inspiring!' -- ***** Reader review 'Inspiring and motivating with beautiful images' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************ Over fifty inspirational women, from many walks of life. All have changed the world in a variety of fields. Among them are politicians and artists, journalists and teachers, engineers and campaigners, fire fighters and film stars. Together they form an arresting gallery of portraits, each one illustrated with original photography by Brigitte Lacombe. Some have led their professions; some have broken new ground for women; some have inspired changes through relentless endeavour. All were chosen for their ambitions and achievements and all tell their stories in their own words. Includes portraits from Meryl Streep, Tina Brown, Lena Dunham, Jo Malone, Laura Bates, Yeonmi Park, Lucy Bronze, Julie Bentley and Michaela DePrince, amongst many others. For girls, it can be hard to identify role models in our society. This book will help and inspire women everywhere to realize their hopes and ambitions.

When Diaosi Shangliang was separated by his girlfriend, he got a system possession and from then on embarked on a 'disheartened' counterattack.

After two years of marriage, she was forced to divorce. On the day of the divorce, she remarried quickly and quietly. Without knowing anything, she and a man she had known for less than an hour had registered for marriage. She looked at the handsome man in front of her. "I think we should get a divorce. This is ridiculous. " The man said, "Maybe we're the best ones. Why not try it?" She had thought it was another absurd marriage, but instead she was filled with happiness. Later on, she found out about this man's identity. He really was no ordinary person! He came back for revenge, with the multinational corporation in his hands. He was swift and decisive, and the crowd was filled with fear and reverence toward him. Originally, he wanted to make use of her, but he had fallen for her. "I've saved up all the good luck of my life just to meet you at the right time, Qiao Wei!" "The luckiest thing in my life is that I haven't missed you, Huo Dongyang!" ***

On the day of Ling Xi's wedding, Ye Yao had died miserably in his home. Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes and went back to the year she was 18, she still hadn't fallen in love with Ling Xi. This is really ... Great. She could finally take back everything that belonged to her and take back the Ye Family without worrying about anyone else. She could unrestrainedly take revenge on those dregs that had hurt her, become the most dazzling star, then turn to that handsome little fresh meat that flew into the sky and escaped into the ground, and talk about a sweet love life and death that would never change. "You want to fall in love with Fresh Meat, huh?" Ye Jiayao's mouth was dry from being slammed into the wall by a man. The man's voice was deep and sexy, full of danger. "You can't look for anyone else except me." In his previous life, there were two things that Ye Yao was most afraid of. One was Ling Tingxiao, and the other was Ling Tingxiao after dark. In this life, she ... Still scared.

Watch how Xiaoxiao lead his family to fight monsters and level up in this crumbling world. On the way, they met a big BOSS. They fought monsters together to level up, while on the way to becoming a Dao-companion.

Zeitlin's study centers on the seventeenth century, one of the most interesting and creative periods of Chinese literature and politically one of the most traumatic, witnessing the overthrow of the Ming, the Manchu conquest, and the subsequent founding of the Qing. Drawing on fiction, drama, poetry, medical cases, and visual culture, the author departs from more traditional literary studies, which tend to focus on a single genre or author. Ranging widely across disciplines, she integrates detailed analyses of great literary works with insights drawn from the history of medicine, art history, comparative literature, anthropology, religion, and performance studies. The Phantom Heroine probes the complex literary and cultural roots of the Chinese ghost tradition. Zeitlin is the first to address its most remarkable feature: the phenomenon of verse attributed to phantom writers - that is, authors actually reputed to be spirits of the deceased. This book should appeal to readers interested in Chinese studies, gender studies, comparative literature, performance studies, the history of religion, and of course, ghost stories and the occult

"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide’s play The Male Queen (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age. Worldly Stage arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated."

Five years ago, his stepsister drugged him and took an ugly picture of him. The stepsister got mixed up with her boyfriend. Her stepmother used her mother's belongings to force her to go abroad. One by one, these things pushed her to the end of her life. But just when I was about to have a baby, I found out that I had a baby. Five years later, she brought Mengbao back in a domineering manner. She clearly only wanted revenge to succeed and retreat, but she accidentally fell into his gentle embrace. Just as she was about to sink in, the gentle embrace became a bottomless trap. Was he in love with her or was he in debt? She originally wanted to ruthlessly push him away, "Young Master Fu, please have some self-respect." However, he hugged her tightly, "You already have a child, why are you still being so self-conscious?"

What he needed was a puppet that could be used as a substitute for his beloved woman. What she needed was a backer that she could rely on. He was domineering, arrogant, a devil, a king of both righteousness and evil. She was stubborn, proud, and beautiful, a seductive spirit. As the double became more and more important, as the facts began to distort, how would they develop? Is it mutual benefit? Was it a battle of mutual hatred? Or was it a fake act, with love as an exit, to escape the labyrinth of hatred?

You're not allowed to say that you know me, you're not allowed to call me when you see me outside, you're not allowed to tell anyone that we're married, you're not allowed to say that I'm your husband.A few times in a row, Lu Qingzhou's dreams were not allowed to be shattered into pieces.She had thought that marrying the god in her heart would make her happy for the rest of her life. Who would have thought that it would be the start of a nightmare?She was confined to his arms and tried to get divorced time and time again, but she couldn't get out of bed."Lu Qingzhou, in this lifetime, you can only belong to me in the next life."Feng Ziyan had already known from the time she was three that she was his bride. He was jealous of the way she looked at any man, and did not allow her to leave his side.