The historians' accounts and evaluations of fiction--myths and legends--works of fiction mentioned in the han dynasty history--fiction attributed to han dynasty writers--tales of the supernatural in the six dynasties--social talk and other works--the tang dynasty prose romances--collections of tang dynasty tales--supernatural tales and prose romances in the sung dynasty--story-tellers' prompt-books of the sung dynasty--imitations of prompt-books in the sung and yuan dynasties--historical romances of the yuan and ming dynasties--ming dynasty novels about gods and devils--novels of manners in the ming dynasty--ming dynasty imitations of sung stries in the vernacular--imitatuions of classical tales in the ching dynasty--novels of social--satire in the ching dynasty--novels of manners in the ching dynasty--novels of erudition in the ching dynasty--novels about prostitution in the ching dynasty--novels of adventure and detection in the ching dynasty--novels of exposure at the end of the ching dynasty

1. Chinese fiction -- History and criticism