The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China

Contents Divisions of Chinese History by Dynastic Rule Conversion Table of Wade Giles and Pinyin Systems for Romanizing Chinese; The World Behind the Chine in the Seventeenth Century; The Novelists Tradition and Innovation; Political Realities in Fictional Past as Metaphor for the Present; Man as Responsible Being; Fictional Examinations of Identity; Disaster and Renewal in an Ordered Universes; etc.