Acknowledgements | |
Abbreviations | |
Illustrations | |
Ji Yun and the Eighteenth-Century Zhiguai | p. 1 |
Close Scrutiny and Oral Storytelling | p. 39 |
Questions of Belief and Disbelief | p. 77 |
Boxue: Understanding the Supernatural | p. 111 |
Didacticism and the Zhiguai Genre | p. 149 |
The Didacticism of Close Scrutiny | p. 187 |
Conclusion: Zhiguai as Discourse | p. 245 |
App | p. 251 |
The "Oral" Tales | p. 253 |
The Belief Tales | p. 265 |
The Kaozheng Tales | p. 275 |
The Didactic Tales | p. 287 |
Glossary | p. 301 |
Bibliography | p. 311 |
Index | p. 337 |
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