Snakes' Legs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction 9780824864330

Snakes' Legs examines sequels (xushu), a common but long-neglected literary phenomenon in traditional China. What p

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Snakes' Legs: Sequels, Continuations, Rewritings, and Chinese Fiction 9780824864330

Table of contents :
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

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