Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Harvard East Asian Monographs) (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))

by TINA (Author), Lu (Author), Lu (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $44.14

  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.