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Chinese literature has traditionally been divided by both theorists and university course providers into ‘classical’ and ‘modern.’ This has left nineteenth-century fiction in limbo, and allowed negative assessments of its quality to persist unchecked. The popularity of Qing dynasty red-light fiction – works whose primary focus is the relationship between clients and courtesans, set in tea-houses, pleasure gardens, and later, brothels – has endured throughout the twentieth century. This volume explores why, arguing that these novels are far from the ‘low’ work of ‘frustrated scholars’ but in their provocative play on the nature of relations between client, courtesan and text, provide an insight into wider changes in understandings of self and literary value in the nineteenth century.

Chinese fiction --- Courtesans in literature. --- S16/0419 --- S16/0414 --- S16/0195 --- History and criticism. --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Qing: studies, texts and translations --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Hongloumeng, Dream of the Red Chamber --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- Courtesans in literature --- East Asian Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism

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Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Chinese fiction --- Chinese literature --- Congresses. --- History and criticism --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- #SML: Nan Huaiyi --- S16/0160 --- S16/0400 --- S16/0440 --- History and criticism&delete& --- Congresses --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on traditional literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Adage. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Allegory. --- Anatomy of Criticism. --- Anecdote. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Apologue. --- Archetype. --- Arthur Waley. --- Biography. --- Book. --- Calligraphy. --- Cao Xueqin. --- Chih. --- Chinese literature. --- Classical language. --- Confucianism. --- Confucius. --- Creative writing. --- Criticism. --- Diary of a Madman (short story). --- Disenchantment. --- Doctrine of the Mean. --- Dream of the Red Chamber. --- Dream vision. --- E. M. Forster. --- Epic poetry. --- Erudition. --- Ezra Pound. --- Fabliau. --- Fang La. --- Fiction. --- Filial piety. --- First appearance. --- Franz Kuhn. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- Good and evil. --- Guan Yu. --- Henri Bergson. --- Historical fiction. --- Historiography. --- Hu Shih. --- I Ching. --- Ian Watt. --- Ibid (short story). --- Irony. --- Jin Ping Mei. --- Journey to the West. --- Juvenal. --- King of Wu. --- Laurence Sterne. --- Lin Yutang. --- Literary fiction. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Liu Bei. --- M. H. Abrams. --- Magic square. --- Memoir. --- Mircea Eliade. --- Narration. --- Narrative history. --- Narrative thread. --- Narrative. --- Non-fiction. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Obscurantism. --- Philosophical language. --- Picaresque novel. --- Plato. --- Poetry. --- Political satire. --- Predestination. --- Pseudohistory. --- Quintilian. --- Regulated verse. --- Religion. --- Richard Gregg (social philosopher). --- Robert Scholes. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Shakespearean comedy. --- Six Dynasties. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taoism. --- The Four Books. --- The Other Hand. --- Traditional story. --- Warfare. --- Water Margin. --- Wickedness. --- Writing. --- Xuanzang. --- Yin and yang. --- Zhu Bajie. --- Zhuge Liang.