Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-385) and index.

Preliminary Material -- From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- The Women of Jinghua yuan -- Hou Zhi and "Women's Tanci" -- Fiction in Three Prominent Women's Lives -- Fiction as Women's Literature: The View Circa 1830 -- Honglou meng ying in Biographical and Literary Perspectives -- Honglou meng Sequels and Their Female Readers -- Women, Publishing, and Late Qing Literary Currents -- Women and "The Rise of the Novel" in China -- Three Generations of Women -- Three Poems in Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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