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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Boundaries and Interpretations: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Xushu 19
6. 2. Transformations of Monkey: Xiyou ji Sequels and the Inward Turn 46
7. 3. In the Name of Correctness: Ding Yaokang’s Xu Jin Ping Mei as a Reading of Jin Ping Mei 75
8. 4. Eliminating Traumatic Antinomies: Sequels to Honglou meng 98
9. 5. Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers in Nineteenth- Century China 116
10. 6. Growing from the Waist: The Problem of Sequeling in Yu Wanchun’s Dangkou zhi 143
11. 7. Rewriting the Tang: Humor, Heroics, and Imaginative Reading 159
12. 8. Vindication of Patriarchy: Chen Tianchi’s Ruyijun zhuan as a Critique of the Ming Ruyijin zhuan 190
13. 9. The Voices of the Re-readers: Interpretations of Three Late-Qing Rewrites of Jinhua yuan 210
14. 10. From Self-Vindication to Self-Celebration: The Autobiographical Journey in Lao Can youji and Its Sequel 237
15. Glossary 263
16. Bibliography 277
17. Contributors 299
18. Index 301