1. Introduction: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

Part I. Contiguities: Women, Fiction, and Print Culture Circa 1830

2. The Women of Jinghua yuan

3. Hou Zhi and "Women's Tanci"

4. Fiction in Three Prominent Women's Lives

5. Fiction as Women's Literature: The View Circa 1830

Part II. Continuities: Honglou meng ying in Its Nineteenth-Century Setting

6. Honglou meng ying Sequels and Their Female Readers

7. Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers

8. Women, Publishing, and Late Qing Literary Currents

Afterword: Women and the "Rise of the Novel" in China

Appendices

A. Three Generations of Women

B. Three Poems in Translation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Ellen Widmer is Professor of Chinese Literature at Wesleyan University.

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