Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature

Contributors ix Introduction 1(72) Wai-yee Li Part I Poetry Confronting History and Its Alternative in Early Qing Poetry: An Introduction 73(26) Wai-yee Li History and Memory in Wu Weiye's Poetry 99(50) Wai-yee Li Loyalism, Exile, Poetry: Revisiting the Monk Hanke 149(50) Lawrence C.H. Yim Qian Qianyi and His Place in History 199(22) Kang-i Sun Chang Part II Prose Introduction 221(10) Ellen Widmer Mao Xiang and Yu Huai: Early Qing Romantic yimin 231(18) Yasushi Oki Between Worlds: Huang Zhouxing's Imaginary Garden 249(33) Ellen Widmer Novelty, Character, and Community in Zhang Chao's Yu Chu xinzhi 282(28) Allan H. Barr Fictional Reunions in the Wake of Dynastic Fall 310(35) Tina Lu Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity Beyond the Ming Fall 345(30) Robert E. Hegel Part III Drama Drama After the Conquest: An Introduction 375(12) Wilt L. Idema "Crossing the Sea in a Leaking Boat": Three Plays by Ding Yaokang 387(40) Wilt L. Idema Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transition 427(27) Dietrich Tschanz Music and Performance in Hong Sheng's Palace of Lasting Life 454(34) Judith T. Zeitlin "I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More": Finding the Genuine in Peach Blossom Fan 488(23) Stephen Owen Index 511