Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation - From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond

Contributors vii Introduction 1(24) David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei Part I The Late Ming and the Early Qing Texts, Tutors, and Fathers: Pedagogy and Pedants in Tang Xianzu's Mudan ting 25(38) Sophie Volpp The Making of the Everyday World: Jin Ping Mei cihua and Encyclopedias for Daily Use 63(30) Shang Wei Women as Emblems of Dynastic Fall in Qing Literature 93(58) Wai-yee Li The Return of the Palace Lady: The Historical Ghost Story and Dynastic Fall 151(49) Judith T. Zeitlin The Daughter's Vision of National Crisis: Tianyuhua and a Woman Writer's Construction of the Late Ming 200(35) Siao-chen Hu Part II From the Late Late Ming to the Early Late Qing Ethics of Form: Qing and Narrative Excess in Guwangyan 235(29) Gang Gary Xu Jinghua yuan: Where the Late Late Ming Meets the Early Late Qing 264(33) Ellen Widmer Part III The Late Qing The Coin of Gender in Pinhua baojian 297(28) Carlos Rojas The Fall of the God of Money: A Chinese Account of Opium Addiction 325(30) Keith McMahon The Newspaper, zhiguai, and the Sorcery Epidemic of 1876 355(33) Rania Huntington A New Mode of Literary Production in the Late Qing: The Invention of the Installment Plan 388(32) Alexander Des Forges The Narrator's Voice Before the "Fiction Revolution" 420(31) Patrick Hanan Part IV From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond Creating Subjectivity in Wu Jianren's The Sea of Regret 451(27) Theodore Huters The Subject of Pain 478(26) Dorothy Ko Women's Poetic Witnessing: Late Ming and Late Qing Examples 504(19) Kang-i Sun Chang Conclusions: Judgments on the Ends of Times 523(26) Robert E. Hegel Second Haunting 549(46) David Der-wei Wang Index 595