Poetry Matters: Interpretative Community, pailü, and "Yingying zhuan"

Ao Wang

pp. 1-34

Subject Headings:

Yuan, Zhen, 779-831. Hui zhen ji.

Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Tales

Linda Rui Feng

pp. 35-68

Subject Headings:

Tales -- China -- History and criticism.

Folk literature, Chinese -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- History and criticism.

Xi'an Shi (China) -- In literature.

Fund-Raising Wars: Office Selling and Interprovincial Finance in Nineteenth-Century China

Elisabeth Kaske

pp. 69-141

Subject Headings:

Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- China -- History -- 19th century.

Finance, Public -- China -- Provinces -- History -- 19th century.

Chinese provinces -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.

Reviews

The Sword or the Needle: The Female Knight-Errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative (review)

Allan H. Barr

pp. 143-148

Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (review)

Michael K. Bourdaghs

pp. 148-155

The Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism During the Koryŏ Dynasty (918-1392) (review)

Remco Breuker

pp. 155-163

Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China (review)

Prasenjit Duara

pp. 163-168

Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (review)

Xiaofei Kang

pp. 169-176

Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki (review)

Seiji M. Lippit

pp. 176-181

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (review)

Elizabeth Oyler

pp. 182-189

Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (review)

Shang Wei

pp. 189-197

Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan (review)

Sarah Thal

pp. 195-203

Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (review)

Franciscus Verellen

pp. 204-208

Negotiating Urban Space: Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing (review)

Richard von Glahn

pp. 209-220

Leprosy in China: A History (review)

Yi-Li Wu

pp. 220-227