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The scholar and the state : fiction as political discourse in late imperial China /

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Main Author: Ge, Liangyan (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Chinese fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and society > China.
Scholars > China > History.
China > Intellectual life.
Roman chinois > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Chine.
Savants > Chine > Histoire.
Chine > Vie intellectuelle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
Chinese fiction.
Intellectual life.
Literature and society.
Scholars.
China.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A rugged partnership: the intellectual elite and the imperial state
  • The romance of the three kingdoms: the Mencian view of political sovereignty
  • The scholar-lover in erotic fiction: a power game of selection
  • The scholars: trudging out of a textual swamp
  • The stone in dream of the red chamber: unfit to repair the azure sky
  • Coda: Out of the imperial shadow.