Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Preface, on Citation and Orthography 1
PART ONE: MATERIALS
Andrew Schonebaum
Introduction 5
Materials in the Hawkes and Minford Translation 7
Editions and Translations
Chinese Texts and Editions 9
English Translations 14
Commonly Taught Selections 16
Naming Practices and Glossary of Names 21
Chronologies and Maps 25
Study Questions 34
The Instructor’s and Students’ Library
Entries in Reference Works 46
Introductions in Anthologies 47
Biographical Resources 47
Critical Studies: Articles and Book Chapters 48
Historical and Cultural Contexts: Books 50
Critical Studies on Stone: Books 51
Selected Web Sites 55
Film and Television Resources 55
PART TWO: APPROACHES
Introduction 59
Andrew Schonebaum
Getting Started
Authorship and The Story of the Stone: Open Questions 70
Haun Saussy
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Five Questions for a New Reader of The Story of the Stone:
A Historian’s Primer for Volume 1 78
Charlotte Furth
Readership and Reading Practices: The Story of the Stone in
Premodern China 95
Martin Huang
The End of Stone 103
Tina Lu
Historical and Cultural Contexts
The Garden and Garden Culture in The Story of the Stone 115
Dore J. Levy
Religion in The Story of the Stone 133
Meir Shahar
The Banner Story of the Stone 144
Evelyn S. Rawski
Bao-yu’s Education 159
James Millward
Medicine in The Story of the Stone: Four Cases 164
Andrew Schonebaum
Scandal in the Garden: The Story of the Stone
as a Licentious Novel 186
Matthew H. Sommer
A Question of Taste: Material Culture, Connoisseurship,
and Character in The Story of the Stone 208
Tobie Meyer-Fong
Three Questions about Stone: Men, Riches, and Religion 218
Susan Naquin
Material Culture Matters in The Story of the Stone 226
Ni Yibin
Identity and Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone
The Story of the Stone and Its Antecedents 259
Mary Scott
Dreams, Subjectivity, and Identity in Stone 274
Tina Lu
The Capillaries of Power: Hierarchy and Servitude in
The Story of the Stone 283
Christopher Lupke
“Enlightenment through Feelings”: Poetry, Music, and Drama in
The Story of the Stone 296
I-Hsien Wu
Making Sense of Bao-yu: Staging Ideology and Aesthetics 317
Maram Epstein
Afterlives of The Story of the Stone
Truth and Fiction in the Translating of The Story of the Stone 334
John Minford
The Story of the Stone and Its Visual Representations, 1791–1919 346
Shang Wei
Sequels to Stone: Polygamous Harmony and the Theme of
Female Talent 381
Keith McMahon
The Stone Phenomenon and Its Transformation from 1791 to 1919 390
Shang Wei
Stone in Modern China: Literature, Politics, and Culture 413
Xiaojue Wang
The Story of the Stone on Television 427
Xueping Zhong
Pedagogical Contexts
Bao-yu Goes to High School 442
Mary Ellen Friends
Bao-yu’s Multimedia Classroom: Reading, Performance,
and the Vicissitudes of the Voice from The Story of the
Stone to Its Film Adaptations 454
Ling Hon Lam
The Story of the Stone and World Literature 475
Haun Saussy
Notes on Contributors 479
Works Cited 481
Index of Chinese Classic Texts 507
Index of Names 509
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