Criticism > Literary Criticism (1400-1800) > Novels of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties - Representative Works

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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Anonymous
*Chin p'ing mei [The Golden Lotus] (novel) 1610

Li Yu
Jou p'u-t'uan [Carnal Prayer Mat; Prayer Mat of Flesh] (novel) 1705

Lo Kuan-chung
San-kuo-chih yen-i [The Romance of the Three Kingdoms] (novel) ca. 1400-1500

Shih-Nai-an
†Shui-hu chuan [The Water Margin; All Men Are Brothers; Outlaws of the Marsh] (novel) ca. 1400-1500

Ts'ao Chan
‡Hung-lou meng [The Dream of the Red Chamber] (novel) 1791

Wu Ch'eng-en
Hsi-yu chi [Monkey; Journey to the West] (novel) ca. 1573-1620

Wu Ching-tzu
Ju-lin wai-shih [The Scholars; Unofficial History of Officialdom] (novel) ca. 1750

*Some scholars propose Xu Wei or Wang Shizhen as the author of Chin p'ing mei.

†Shih-Nai-an is suggested as the author, but cannot be substantiated....

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews And Historical Development
   1. Ch'en Shou-Yi (essay date 1961)
   2. John L. Bishop (essay date 1965)
   3. Robert E. Hegel (essay date 1980)
4. Criticism: Major Works—Overview
   1. Liu Wu-chi (essay date 1966)
   2. C. T. Hsia (essay date 1968)
   3. David T. Roy (essay date 1977)
   4. Winston L. Y. Yang, Peter Li and Nathan K. Mao (essay date 1978)
   5. C. T. Hsia (essay date 1990)
5. Criticism: Genre Studies
   1. C. T. Hsia (essay date 1974)
   2. Y. W. Ma (essay date 1975)
   3. Robert Hessney (essay date 1979)
6. Criticism: Cultural And Social Themes
   1. Robert E. Hegel (essay date 1981)
   2. Yenna Wu (essay date 1995)
7. Further Reading
8. Copyright

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