Contributors Introduction by Wai-yee Li Part I Poetry Confronting History and Its Alternative in Early Qing Poetry: An Introduction by Wai-yee Li History and Memory in Wu Weiye's Poetry by Wai-yee Li Loyalism, Exile, Poetry: Revising the Monk Hanke by Lawrence C. H. Yim Qian Qianyi and His Place in History by Kang-i Sun Change Part II Prose Introduction by Ellen Widmer Mao Xiang and Yu Huai: Early Qing Romanting yimin by Yasushi Oki Between Worlds: Huang Zhouxing's Imaginary Garden by Ellen Widmer Novelty, Character, and Community in Zhang Chao's Yu Chu xinzhi by Allan H. Barr Fictional Reunions in the Wake of Dynastic Fall by Tina Lu Dreaming the Past: Memory and Continuity Beyond the Ming Fall by Robert E. Hegel Drama After the Conquest: An Introduction by Wilt L. Idema "Crossing the Sea in a Leaking Boat": Three Plays by Ding Yaokang by Wilt L. Idema Wu Weiye's Dramatic Works and His Aesthetics of Dynastic Transition by Dietrich Tschanz Music and Performance in Hong Sheng's Palace of Lasting LIfe by Judith T. Zietlin "I Don't Want to Act as Emperor Any More": Finding the Genuine in Peach Blossom Fan by Stephen Owen Index.