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Book SynopsisAlthough 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 o
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Table of Contents, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Foreword, pg. ix*Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-Chuan as Example, pg. 3*The Six Dynasties Chih-Kuai and the Birth of Fiction, pg. 21*A Taste For Apricots: Approaches to Chinese Fiction, pg. 53*Narrative Patterns in San-Kuo and Shui-Hu, pg. 73*The Nature of Ling Meng-Ch'u's Fiction, pg. 85*Chang Chu-P'o's Commentary on the Chinfing Mei, pg. 115*Sui GAMMAang Yen-I and the Aesthetics of the Seventeenth-Century Suchou Elite, pg. 124*Allegory in Hsi-Yu Chi and Hung-Loumeng, pg. 163*Point of View, Norms, and Structure: Hung-Lou Meng and Lyrical Fiction, pg. 203*Lyricvisionin Chinese Narrative Tradition: A Reading of Hung-Loumeng and Ju-Lin Wai-Shih, pg. 227*Ritual and Narrative Structure Inju-Lin Wai-Shih, pg. 244*The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-Hua Yuan, pg. 266*Towards a Critical Theory of Chinese Narrative, pg. 309*Contributors, pg. 353*Index, pg. 357
