Contents
Preface
Notes on Romanization
1. Potent Polygamists and Chaste Monogamists
2. Polygamy According to Fiction and Prescriptive Models
3. Shrews and Jealousy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Vernacular Fiction
4. The Self-Containing Man: The Miser and the Ascetic
5. The Chaste "Beauty-Scholar" Romance and the Superiority of the Talented Woman
6. The Erotic Scholar-Beauty Romance
7. A Case for Confucian Sexuality: Chaste Polygamy in Yesou Puyan
8. Polygyny, Crossing of Gender, and the Superiority of Women in Honglou Meng
9. The Overly Virtuous Wife and the Wastrel Polygamist in Lin Lan Xiang
10. The Spoiled Son and the Doting Mother in Qilu Deng
11. The Other Scholar and Beauty: The Wastrel and the Prostitute in Lüye Xianzong
12. The Benevolent Polygamist and the Domestication of Sexual Pleasure in Shenlou Zhi
13. Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan as Antidote to Honglou Meng
14. Promiscuous Polygyny and Male Self-Critique
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Index