The book studies Alice Munro's inheritance of and contribution to Realism from the perspective of a Chinese scholar.

Li-Ping Geng is a Professor of English at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. His primary interests are in 18th-century British literature as well as Canadian literature.

1. Tradition and Innovation 2. Revisioned Feminism in Lives of Girls and Women 3. Sympathy and Empirical Morals 4. Discursive Structuring and Revamped Mimesis 5. Conclusion