Misers, shrews, and polygamists

Misers, shrews, and polygamists

sexuality and male-female relations in eighteenth-century Chinese fiction

Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in psychoanalytic and feminist criticism, the book examines how polygamous privilege functions in these novels and provides one of the first full accounts of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China.

McMahon, K.

Durham: Duke University Press

1995