Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Wai-yee Li
Part I Poetry
Confronting History and Its Alternative in
Early
Qing Poetry: An Introduction 73
Wai-yee Li
History and Memory in Wu Weiye's Poetry 99
Wai-yee Li
Loyalism, Exile, Poetry: Revisiting the
Monk Hanke 149
Lawrence C. H. Yim
Qian Qianyi and His Place in History 199
Kang-i Sun Chang
Part II Prose
Introduction 221
Ellen Widmer
Mao Xiang and Yu Huai: Early Qing Romantic
yimin 231
Yasushi Oki
Between Worlds: Huang Zhouxing's Imaginary
Garden 249
Ellen Widmer
Novelty, Character, and Community in Zhang
Chao's
Yu Chu xinzhi 282
Allan H. Barr
Fictional Reunions in the Wake of Dynastic
Fall 310
Tina Lu
Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity
Beyond
the Ming Fall 345
Robert E. Hegel
Part III Drama
Introduction 375
Wilt L. Idema
"Crossing the Sea in a Leaking Boat":
Three Plays by
Ding Yaokang 387
Wilt L. Idema
Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His
Aesthetics of
Dynastic Transition 427
Dietrich Tschanz
Music and Performance in Hong Sheng's
Palace of
Lasting Life 454
Judith Zeitlin
"I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More":
Finding
the Genuine in Peach Blossom Fan 488
Stephen Owen
Index 513

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Chinese literature -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism.