- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Narrative Structures of Orthodoxy
- Orthodox Constructions of Self
- Ritual, Yinyang Cosmology, and the Construction of Gender
- Wen and the Aesthetics of Orthodoxy
- 2. The Late Ming Reinterpretation of Human Nature
- The Paradoxical Meanings of Qing
- Subjective Qing Versus the Objective Ideal in Orthodox Neo-Confucianism
- The Late Ming Reformulation of Human Nature
- Li Zhi, Desire, and Authenticity
- Ritual and Desire Reconciled in Qing Thought
- From Philosophy to Fiction: The Aesthetics of Qing
- 3. Xingshi yinyuan zhuan: Orthodoxy and the Making of the Shrew
- Inversions of Orthodoxy: Xingshi and Failed Self-Cultivation
- Fox-Spirits and the Wounds of Self-Cultivation
- The Shrew and Yinyang Symbolism
- 4. Reflections of Desire in Honglou meng
- The Feminization of Baoyu’s World
- Prospect Garden and the Staging of Qing
- Desire and Dissolution of Ritual Identities
- Yinyang Numerology and the Precious Mirror Chapters
- Responding to Discursive Ambiguity: The Commentaries of Red Inkstone and Zhang Xinzhi
- 5. Expanding Orthodoxy: Narrative Excess and Expedient Authenticity in Yesou puyan
- Xia Jingqu and Yesou puyan
- Yinyang Iconography in Yesou puyan
- Yesou puyan and the Masculinization of the Scholar-Beauty Genre
- Expediency, Qing, and the Ethics of Sexuality
- 6. Heroic Women and Deficient Men in Jinghua yuan and Ernü yingxiong zhuan
- The Rule of Women in Jinghua yuan
- Ernü yingxiong zhuan: Playing with Gender/Genre
- 7. Conclusion: From the Symbolic to the Political
- Reference Matter
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 197
Competing Discourses
Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
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