Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China

Author/Contributor(s):	Roddy, Stephen J
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	02/01/1998
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication.