Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Desire, Anxiety, and Ambivalence During the Late Ming -- The Debates on Qing in Late Imperial China -- From Yu to Qing: Desire and Fictional Narrative -- The Materiality of Desire and the Beyond in Jin Ping Mei -- Women and Desire in Chipozi zhuan and Dengcao heshang -- Desire and Karmic Retribution in Xingshi yinyuan zhuan -- Qing and Homoerotic Desire in Bian er chai and Lin Lan Xiang -- Qing and the Virtuous Body in Three Scholar-Beauty Romances -- Qing Versus Yu: The Polarization of Desire in Yesou puyan and Guwangyan -- Qing and the Reluctance to Grow up in Honglou meng -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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