Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-337) and index.
Contents
The Goujian story in antiquity -- The burden of national humiliation: late Qing and republican years -- The plight of Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan -- Crisis and response: the Woxin changdan fever of the early 1960s -- Political allegory in the 1980s: Xiao Jun and Bai Hua -- The Goujian story in a privatizing China -- Conclusion: cross-cultural perspectives.
