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- 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
HARVARD EAST ASIAN MONOGRAPHS
Harvard East Asian Monographs 268
The Beauty and the Book
Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China
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Publication Date: 04/30/2006
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