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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE SEARCHING FOR THE SUBJECTS Life Stories and Biographical Accounts
6. 1 Kubilai’s Empresses Biographical Perspectives 19
7. 2 Surname Restoration Petitions and the Mutability and Manipulability of Patriline in Ming China 41
8. 3 The Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan in the History and Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century 71
9. 4 Between Collaboration and Resistance: The Third Way of Mao Xiang (1611–1693) 115
10. PART TWO UNDERSTANDING THE AUTHORS Portraying Lives in Various Media
11. 5 Wang Shizhen as Biographer: Genres and Agendas 143
12. 6 Painting a Dual Biography 161
13. 7 Engendering Lives: Women as Self-Appointed and Sought-After Biographers in the Qing Dynasty 197
14. PART THREE FOLLOWING THE TEXTS Creation, Publication, Revision, and Transmission
15. 8 Re-Collecting Yue Fei: Yue Ke, Jintuo cui bian, and the Making of a Chinese Hero 229
16. 9 Fathers and Sons in the Mingshi: A Thematic Reading of a State History 253
17. 10 Loyalty, History, and Empire: Qian Qianyi and His Korean Biographies 299
18. 11 From Female Martyrs to Worthy Mothers: The Shift in Exemplary Women’s Biographies in the Ming–Qing Dynastic Histories 333
19. 12 Conclusion 355
20. Bibliography 363
21. Index 421
22. About the Contributors 459