Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword ix
5. I. Early Historical and Fictional Narrative
6. Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-Chuan as Example 3
7. The Six Dynasties Chih-Kuai and the Birth of Fiction 21
8. A Taste For Apricots: Approaches to Chinese Fiction 53
9. II. Ming and Early Ch'ing Fiction
10. Narrative Patterns in San-Kuo and Shui-Hu 73
11. The Nature of Ling Meng-Ch'u's Fiction 85
12. Chang Chu-P'o's Commentary on the Chinfing Mei 115
13. Sui Γang Yen-I and the Aesthetics of the Seventeenth-Century Suchou Elite 124
14. III. Middle and Late Ch'ing Fiction
15. Allegory in Hsi-Yu Chi and Hung-Loumeng 163
16. Point of View, Norms, and Structure: Hung-Lou Meng and Lyrical Fiction 203
17. Lyricvisionin Chinese Narrative Tradition: A Reading of Hung-Loumeng and Ju-Lin Wai-Shih 227
18. Ritual and Narrative Structure Inju-Lin Wai-Shih 244
19. The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-Hua Yuan 266
20. IV. Chinese Narrative Theory
21. Towards a Critical Theory of Chinese Narrative 309
22. Contributors 353
23. Index 357