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Li Chi

June 30, 2016 in Press

Interview with BYU Radio’s The Apple Seed

BYU Radio's "The Apple Seed: Tellers and Stories" devoted an entire episode to Rejected Princesses--part of it is an interview with me, and the rest has professional storytellers telling the tales of some women featured on this site.
April 9, 2015 in Corrections

Li Chi’s historiography: totally wack.

How could Li Chi possibly compare herself to a Chinese heroine who was born a century after Li Chi herself? The answer gets complicated.
Li Chi (5th century BCE myth)
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