Snakes' Legs : : Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction / / ed. by Martin W. Huang.
Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What prompted writers to produce sequels despite their poor reputation as a genre? What motivated readers to read them? How should we characterize the nature of the relationship between...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Boundaries and Interpretations: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Xushu
- 2. Transformations of Monkey: Xiyou ji Sequels and the Inward Turn
- 3. In the Name of Correctness: Ding Yaokang's Xu Jin Ping Mei as a Reading of Jin Ping Mei
- 4. Eliminating Traumatic Antinomies: Sequels to Honglou meng
- 5. Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers in Nineteenth- Century China
- 6. Growing from the Waist: The Problem of Sequeling in Yu Wanchun's Dangkou zhi
- 7. Rewriting the Tang: Humor, Heroics, and Imaginative Reading
- 8. Vindication of Patriarchy: Chen Tianchi's Ruyijun zhuan as a Critique of the Ming Ruyijin zhuan
- 9. The Voices of the Re-readers: Interpretations of Three Late-Qing Rewrites of Jinhua yuan
- 10. From Self-Vindication to Self-Celebration: The Autobiographical Journey in Lao Can youji and Its Sequel
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index