- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Note on Texts and Editions
- Introduction
- 1. Telling Stories, Writing Tales
- 2. Filling the Gaps: Tales On and Against History
- 3. Strange Encounters: Exploring a Formula
- 4. Strange Encounters: Contrivance and Wit
- 5. Rewritings: Authorship and the Authority of the Written Text
- 6. Toward the Closing of Texts: The Anthology Yiwen ji
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Major Tales and Tale Collections Referenced in the Text
- Works Cited
- Index
HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE MONOGRAPH SERIES


Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 95
Shifting Stories
History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China
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Publication Date: 10/13/2014
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