- List of Tables and Figures*
- Preface
- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties and Periods Relevant to This Study
- A Note on Textual Conventions
- Introduction
- 1. Taking Filial Love Seriously
- 2. Toward a New Paradigm of Emotions
- 3. Changing Constructions of Filial Virtue in Local Gazetteers
- 4. Filial Piety and the Empowering of Daughters during the Qing
- 5. Rereading the Sentimental World of Story of the Stone
- 6. Rethinking Interiority: Mourning Rites and the Construction of the Affective and Ethical Self in Auto/biographical Writings
- Epilogue
- Sources Cited
- Index
- * Tables and Figures
- Tables
- 1.1. Son–Mother versus Son–Father Filial Acts in Local Gazetteers
- 1.2. Son–Mother versus Son–Father Flesh Slicing in Local Gazetteers
- 3.1. Biographies of Filial Sons in the 1760 Tai’an Gazetteer
- Figures
- 3.1. Filial Sons in Tai’an Gazetteers, 1554–1929
- 3.2. Filial Acts in Jiangning Gazetteers
- 3.3. Filial Acts in Wujin Yanghu Gazetteers
- 4.1. Women’s Filial Acts in Tai’an Gazetteers, 1554–1929
- 4.2. Women’s Filial Acts in Wujin Yanghu Gazetteers
- 4.3. Chaste Daughters in Qing Gazetteers
- Tables