Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
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In this first academic book focusing on the culture of desire in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the author believes that only by comprehensively exploring the various new concepts about desire in that period can we make an in-depth discussion of the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties as a special narrative style. "Phoenix Library·Overseas China Studies Series: Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China" closely links the maturation and development of this important genre with the increasingly complex discourse on desire in that period. The first three chapters of the book are an outline of the background history and theory of desire as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The last seven chapters are a close reading of a series of specific works of Ming and Qing novels, trying to depict the extremely complex development trajectory from "desire" to "emotion" in Ming and Qing novels.
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