Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Essays by Patrick Hanan

Patrick Hanan

December, 2004
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13324-1
$42.00 / £24.50

1. The Narrator’s Voice Before the "Fiction Revolution"

2. Illusion of Romance and the Courtesan Novel

3. The Missionary Novels of the Nineteenth Century

4. The First Novel Translated Into Chinese

5. The Translated Fiction in the Early Shen Bao

6. The New Novel Before the New Novel—John Fryer’s Fiction Contest

7. The Second Stage of Vernacular Translation

8. Wu Jianren and the Narrator

9. Specific Literary Relations of Sea of Regret

10. The Autobiographical Romance of Chen Diexian

11. The Technique of Lu Xun’s Fiction

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Patrick Hanan is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Chinese Literature emeritus at Harvard University. He is the author of The Chinese Vernacular Story and The Invention of Li Yu, and the translator of The Carnal Prayer Mat, The Sea of Regret, and A Tower for the Summer Heat (Columbia) among other works.

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