Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan - Marriage As Retribution, Awakening the World - Tapa blanda

This book is the first study of ameliorative satire as a mode, and the first full-length critical study in English on Xi Zhou Sheng's 100-chapter Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan, (Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World, 1661), perhaps the most important novel from seventeenth-century China.