The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature by Judith T. Zeitlin

The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature

Judith T. Zeitlin

296 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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The phantom heroine--in particular the fantasy of her resurrection through sex with a living man--is one of the most striking features of traditional Chinese literature. Even today the hypersexual female ghost continues to be a source of fascinati...

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