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Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Discourse | |
1 | The Discourse on the Strange | 15 |
The First Wave: Legitimating the Strange | 17 | |
The Second Wave: Self-expression and Allegory | 25 | |
The Third Wave: Style and the Analogy to Vernacular Fiction | 34 | |
2 | The Historian of the Strange's Self-introduction | 43 |
Liaozhai's Own Record | 43 | |
Seeing the Self as Other | 52 | |
The Ghostly Writer | 56 | |
Pt. II | The Tales | |
3 | Obsession | 61 |
The Chinese Concept of Obsession | 61 | |
A Brief History of Obsession | 65 | |
The Late Ming Craze for Obsession | 69 | |
The Ethereal Rock | 74 | |
Addiction and Satire | 88 | |
4 | Dislocations in Gender | 98 |
The Human Prodigy | 98 | |
The Female Body Transformed | 106 | |
The Transformations of Sang Chong | 109 | |
Heroes Among Women | 116 | |
The Grotesque Woman | 125 | |
The Shrew | 127 | |
5 | Dream | 132 |
Pu Songling's Dream | 132 | |
Late Ming Interest in Dreams | 135 | |
The Interpretation of Dreams | 140 | |
Dream and Experience | 151 | |
Dream and the Emotions | 154 | |
Dream and Fictionality | 164 | |
A Fox Dream | 174 | |
Conclusion: The Painted Wall | 183 | |
Crossing Boundaries | 183 | |
Illusion That Is Not Illusion | 187 | |
Making the Strange Legible | 193 | |
Appendix: Translations | 203 | |
The Ethereal Rock | 203 | |
Miss Yan | 207 | |
A Fox Dream | 211 | |
The Painted Wall | 216 | |
Notes | 221 | |
Selected Bibliography | 283 | |
Character List | 301 | |
Index | 313 |
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