The Phantom Heroine : : Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature / / Judith T. Zeitlin.
The "phantom heroine"-in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man-is one of the most striking features of traditional Chinese literature. Even today the hypersexual female ghost continues to be a source of fascination in East Asian media, much like the sexua...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 27 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Citations and Abbreviations
- Selected Dynasties and Periods
- Introduction
- 1. The Ghost's Body
- 2. The Ghost's Voice
- 3 .Ghosts and Historical Time
- 4 .Ghosts and Theatricality
- Coda: Palace of Lasting Life
- APPENDIX: selected list of major translated book and film titles
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author