Snakes' Legs : : Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction / / ed. by Martin W. Huang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Chen Hu, Siao,; Hegel, Robert,; Huang, Martin,; Laura Wu, H.,; Li, Qiancheng,; Mcmahon, Keith,; Wang, Ying,; Widmer, Ellen,; Yang, Shuhui,
• HerausgeberIn: Huang, Martin W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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...

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