Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction

Daniel Hsieh

June, 2007
Cloth, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-962-996-305-7
The Chinese University Press
$39.00

This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the emergence of "love" as a theme in Chinese literature is closely related to the historical background of the Tang dynasty.

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Daniel Hsieh is an associate professor of Chinese at Purdue University.

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