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Contents
A Note on Chinese Romanization
1. A Rugged Partnership
The Intellectual Elite and the Imperial State
2. Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Mencian View of Political Sovereignty
3. The Scholar-Lover in Erotic Fiction
A Power Game of Selection
4. The Scholars
Trudging Out of a Textual Swamp
5. The Stone in Dream of the Red Chamber
Unfit to Repair the Azure Sky
Coda
Out of the Imperial Shadow