The Chinese femme fatale : stories from the Ming period
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The Chinese femme fatale : stories from the Ming period
（The University of Sydney East Asian series, no. 8）
Wild Peony, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 102)
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This book examines one of the most potent images in traditional China: the femme fatale, a beautiful woman whose sexual dominance leads to the destruction of her family and society at large. These stories were written to meet the needs of a significant literate class that emerged with the growth of towns in the Ming period. The stories are entertaining and at times risque and raunchy. This is the first published anthology of Chinese femme-fatale stories, because previous anthologies have been devoted to "virtuous" women.
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