This work traces how political questions were addressed in late imperial Chinese fiction through extreme situations such as husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval and families so disrupted that incestuous encounters became inevitable.
"Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an i…
"Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person (as distinguished, for example, from an i…
