Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature

Edited by Wilt L. Idema

Edited by Wai-yee Li

Edited by Ellen Widmer

    Contributors

    Introduction by Wai-yee Li

    Part I Poetry

    Confronting History and Its Alternative in Early Qing Poetry: An Introduction by Wai-yee Li

    History and Memory in Wu Weiye's Poetry by Wai-yee Li

    Loyalism, Exile, Poetry: Revising the Monk Hanke by Lawrence C. H. Yim

    Qian Qianyi and His Place in History by Kang-i Sun Change

    Part II Prose

    Introduction by Ellen Widmer

    Mao Xiang and Yu Huai: Early Qing Romanting yimin by Yasushi Oki

    Between Worlds: Huang Zhouxing's Imaginary Garden by Ellen Widmer

    Novelty, Character, and Community in Zhang Chao's Yu Chu xinzhi by Allan H. Barr

    Fictional Reunions in the Wake of Dynastic Fall by Tina Lu

    Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity Beyond the Ming Fall by Robert E. Hegel

    Part III Drama

    Drama After the Conquest: An Introduction by Wilt L. Idema

    "Crossing the Sea in a Leaking Boat": Three Plays by Ding Yaokang by Wilt L. Idema

    Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transition by Dietrich Tschanz

    Music and Performance in Hong Sheng's Palace of Lasting LIfe by Judith T. Zietlin

    "I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More": Finding the Genuine in Peach Blossom Fan by Stephen Owen

    Index

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Wilt Idema is Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.

Wai-yee Li is Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University.

Ellen Widmer is Professor of Chinese Literature at Wesleyan University.