CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Part I. CHINESE LITERATURE IN PERSPECTIVE
6. Classical Chinese Literature 3
7. Chinese Novels and American Critics 30
8. On the “Scientific” Study of Modern Chinese Literature 50
9. Part II. TRADITIONAL DRAMA
10. An Introduction to The Romance of the Western Chamber 87
11. Time and the Human Condition in the Plays of T’ang Hsien-tsu 102
12. Part III. TRADITIONAL AND EARLY MODERN FICTION
13. The Military Romance 135
14. Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber 171
15. The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture 188
16. Yen Fu and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao as Advocates of New Fiction 223
17. The Travels of Lao Ts’an 247
18. Hsü Chen-ya’s Yü-li hun 269
19. Part IV. MODERN FICTION
20. Introduction to Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919–1949 313
21. The Korchin Banner Plains 332
22. Residual Femininity 376
23. Foreword to Chinese Stories from Taiwan: 1960–1970 398
24. Black Tears 414
25. Notes 427
26. Glossary 495
27. Index 511