Introduction David Der-wei Wang and Shang Wei
Part I
The Late Ming and the Early Qing Texts, Tutors, and Fathers: Pedagogy and Pedants in Tang Xianzu's Mudan ting Sophie Volpp
The Making of the Everyday World: Jin Ping Mei cihua and Encyclopedias for Daily Use Shang Wei
Women as Emblems of Dynastic Fall in Qing Literature 93 Wai-yee Li
The Return of the Palace Lady: The Historical Ghost Story and Dynastic Fall Judith T. Zeitlin
The Daughter's Vision of National Crisis: Tianyuhua and a Woman Writer's Construction of the Late Ming Siao-chen Hu
Part II
From the Late Late Ming to the Early Late Qing Ethics of Form: Qing and Narrative Excess in Guwangyan Gang Gary Xu
Jinghua yuan: Where the Late Late Ming Meets the Early Late Qing Ellen Widmer
Part III
The Late Qing The Coin of Gender in Pinhua baojian Carlos Rojas
The Fall of the God of Money: A Chinese Account of Opium Addiction Keith McMahon
The Newspaper, zhiguai, and the Sorcery Epidemic of 1876 Rania Huntington
A New Mode of Literary Production in the Late Qing: The Invention of the Installment Plan Alexander Des Forges
The Narrator's Voice Before the "Fiction Revolution" Patrick Hanan
Part IV
From the Late Ming to the Late Qing and Beyond Creating Subjectivity in Wu Jianren's The Sea of Regret Theodore Huters
The Subject of Pain Dorothy Ko
Women's Poetic Witnessing: Late Ming and Late Qing Examples Kang-i Sun Chang
Conclusions: Judgments on the Ends of Times Robert E. Hegel
Second Haunting David Der-wei Wang
Index
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