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Falling in love, with all its accompanying problems, was a subject of obsessive interest among writers and readers in the Ming Dynasty, when society held strictly to arranged marriages. This…
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Patrick Hanan
Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Hanan places him in…
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Examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese writers first came into contact with western fiction. This book explores the uses made of fiction by westerners in…
The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China’s literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of…
Anonymous,Patrick Hanan
Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders’ association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for…
A chilling tale of seduction and vice set in the illiciit world of nineteenth-century China.
Anonymous
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Patrick Hanan,Anonymous Patrick
Chen Diexian
Chen Diexian was a writer, inventor and business tycoon whose life spanned the old China and the new. This is the story of his passage from innocent boy to young…
Wu Jianren
Published in 1906, Stones in the Sea by Fu Lin and The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the turn-of-the-century debate over the place of romantic…
Li Yu
In the 300 years since its initial publication, Li Yu’s book has been widely read in China, where it is recognised as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys…
Li Yu,Yu Li
Yu Li
Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Sh'ier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from pre-modern China. With Hanan’s introduction and…
Guanzhong Luo
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is…
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