Literati and Self-Re/Presentation

Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
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By:"Martin Huang"
"Literary Criticism"
Published on 1995-06-01 by Stanford University Press

Autobiographical Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel Martin \u003cbr\u003e\nHuang. has tried to reconstruct the complicated process of \u003cb\u003eCao Xueqin's\u003c/b\u003e rewriting \u003cbr\u003e\nand editing of The Dream by analyzing various cases of anachronism in the \u003cbr\u003e\nnovel.

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This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the eighteenth century, even as explicitly autobiographical writing was in a decline. He suggests that several new trends in the development of the genre (such as the accelerated \

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