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About the Author Keith McMahon is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Kansas, where he teaches Chinese language, the history of literature, and the history of sexuality in China. He has published three books—Causality and Containment in Seventeenth-century Chinese Fiction (1988), Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-century Chinese Fiction (1995), and The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in Nineteenth-century China (2002)—and is currently working on a history of imperial polygamy from ancient times to the end of the Qing empire. “This book is a tour de force, the first in English to discuss Chinese fiction from the nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth within a comprehensive thematic frame. McMahon’s familiarity with Chinese fiction of the period covered is extremely impressive, as is his command of the secondary sources, both English and Chinese.” —Theodore Huters, UCLA “This study presents an unexcelled portrait of what Western-oriented reformers reacted against in the society they grew up with, thus making a tremendous contribution to scholarly understanding of late imperial literature. Moreover, as a basis for comparative analysis, this monograph will be widely heralded as essential reading on twentieth-century Chinese culture and society and for modernization studies more generally.” —Robert E. Hegel, Washington University in St. Louis JACKET ART: A xianü (woman warrior), from the Shanghai 1886 edition of Pu Songling’s, Xiangzhu Liaozhai zhiyi tuyong. JACKET DESIGN: Julie Matsuo-Chun C H I N E S E L I T E R A T U R E / H I S T O R Y ISBN 978-0-8248-3376-3 9 780824 833763 9 0 0 0 0 www.uhpress.hawaii.edu UNIVERSITY of HAWAI‘I PRESS Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-1888 ...

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