Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature

Mark Stevenson, Ph.D. (2000, University of Melbourne) is an Honorary Fellow at Victoria University, Melbourne, and currently teaches Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His publications on sexuality in Chinese history include Homoeroticism in Imperial China (Routledge, 2013).Wu Cuncun, Ph.D. (2002, University of Melbourne) is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, University of Hong Kong. Her most recent book is Drama Beyond the Drama: The Private Apartment System and Beijing Theatre Culture, 1790-1911 (HKU Press, forthcoming, in Chinese).

• Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements VIIList of Contributors xiIntroductionChapter 1 Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature: Models, Genres, Subversions and Traditions 3Mark StevensonPart 1 Wanton Women in History and FictionChapter 2 The Polyandrous Empress: Imperial Women and their Male Favorites 29Keith McMahonChapter 3 The Male Homoerotic Wanton Woman in Late Ming Fiction 54Mark StevensonPart 2 Wanton Women in DramaChapter 4 Musical Seductresses, Chauvinistic Men, and Their Erotic Kunqu Discourse 81Joseph LamChapter 5 Late Ming Urban Life and Wanton Women in Huang Fangyin’s Short Plays 105Wu CuncunPart 3 Women’s Songs and BalladsChapter 6 Wanton, but not Bad: Women in Feng Menglong’s Mountain Songs 129Yasushi ÔkiChapter 7 Turning the Authorial Table: Women Writing Wanton (Wo)Men, Shame, and Jealousy in Two Qing Tanci 157Maram EpsteinChapter 8 Gossip, Scandal, and the Wanton Woman in Chinese Song-cycles 184Anne McLarenIndex

"...the book as a whole offers important new insights into the way traditional Chinese women were controlled." - Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College, in: NAN NÜ 20:2