Travels, Dreams and Collecting of the Past: A Study of “Qiantang Meng” (A Dream by Qiantang River) in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
abstract: My dissertation primarily investigates the vast literary corpus of “Qiantang meng” 錢塘夢 (A dream by Qiantang River, 1499, QTM hereafter), the earliest preserved specimen of the Chinese vernacular story of the “courtesan” 煙粉 category, which appears first in the mid-Hongzhi 弘治period (1488-...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.45556 |