The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China
were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals, not only
because of the many decades of destructive warfare but also because
of the adjustments necessary to life under a foreign regime.
History became a defining subject in their writings, and it went on
shaping literary production in succeeding generations as the Ming
continued to be remembered, re-imagined, and refigured on new
terms.
The twelve chapters in this volume and the introductory essays
on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of
this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend
the trauma of the transition years. By the end of the seventeenth
century, the sense of trauma had diminished, and a mood of
accommodation had taken hold. Varying shades of lament or
reconciliation, critical or nostalgic retrospection on the Ming,
and rejection or acceptance of the new order distinguish the many
voices in these writings.
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