Snakes'legs : sequels, continuations, rewritings, and Chinese fiction / edited by Martin W. Huang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huang, Martin W., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--History and criticism.

Chinese fiction.

Sequels (Literature).

Physical Description:

vii, 306 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.

Contents:

1 Boundaries and Interpretations: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Xushu / Martin W. Huang 19

2 Transformations of Monkey: Xiyou ji Sequels and the Inward Turn / Qiancheng Li 46

3 In the Name of Correctness: Ding Yaokang's Xu Jin Ping Mei as a Reading of Jin Ping Mei / Siao-Chen Hu 75

4 Eliminating Traumatic Antinomies: Sequels to Honglou meng / Keith McMahon 98

5 Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers in Nineteenth-Century China / Ellen Widmer 116

6 Growing from the Waist: The Problem of Sequeling in Yu Wanchun's Dangkou zhi / Shuhui Yang 143

7 Rewriting the Tang: Humor, Heroics, and Imaginative Reading / Robert E. Hegel 159

8 Vindication of Patriarchy: Chen Tianchi's Ruyijun zhuan as a Critique of the Ming Ruyijin zhuan / H. Laura Wu 190

9 The Voices of the Re-readers: Interpretations of Three Late-Qing Rewrites of Jinhua yuan / Ying Wang 210

10 From Self-Vindication to Self-Celebration: The Autobiographical Journey in Lao Can youji and Its Sequel / Martin W. Huang 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824828127

OCLC:

54528931