Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon (Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan), this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity.
Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? This book traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction.
Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon ("Peony Pavilion" and "Peach Blossom Fan"), this study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity.
