Ten essays based on an Association of Asian studies conference in 2001 examine xushu (sequels), a little-studied popular genre in traditional Chinese fiction. Counter to the view that sequels are deri
In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fun
Huang (Chinese, U. of California, Irvine) compiles four essays that examine friendship in late imperial China from the perspective of gender history. Topics considered by scholars in the fields of his
This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red C
