The Margins of Utopia

By Ellen Widmer

The Margins of Utopia
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Preliminary Material -- The Margins of Utopia -- Ch'en Ch'en and the Ming-Loyalist Predicament -- Ming Loyalism As Meaning in Shui-hu hou-chuan -- Reading Between the Lines: Chin Sheng-t'an and the Reconstruction of the "Author" in Shui-hu chuan -- "Fictions of the Self": Commentary and the "Author's" Voice in Shui-hu hou-chuan -- Nature and Utopia in Shui-hu hou-chuan -- Shui-hu Hou-chuan Revised -- Epilogue and Conclusion: After Shui-hu hou-chuan -- Editions of Shui-hu hou-chuan -- Résumé of Shui-hu hou-chuan (Ch'en edition) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.

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