Contents -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- Particulars and Universals: Studies on Chinese Privacy -- PART II: EXPERIENCING PRIVACY -- Solitude, Silence and Concealment: Boundaries of the Social Body in Ming Dynasty China -- Privacy in Dream of the Red Chamber -- PART III: INSCRIBING PRIVACY -- Studying the Private Sphere of the Ancient Chinese Nobility through the Inscriptions on Bronze Ritual Vessels -- Privacy and Letter Writing in Han and Six Dynasties China -- PART IV: NEGOTIATING PRIVACY -- The Origins of Modern Chinese Concepts of Privacy: Notes on Social Structure and Moral Discourse -- Functions and Values of Privacy in the Correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, 1925-1929 -- PART V: EXPOSING PRIVACY -- Privacy and its Ill Effects in Post-Mao Urban Fiction -- The Extrication of Memory in Tie Ning's Woman Showering: Privacy and the Trap of History -- PART VI: CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Privacy in China -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.