Volume 1 Issue 1-2, November 2014

Table of Contents

“Foreword to the Inaugural Issue.”

Yuan Xingpei and Zong-qi Cai

“The Potent Eunuch: The Story of Wei Zhongxian.”

Keith McMahon

“Nobody’s Genre, Everybody’s Song: Sanqu Songs and the Expansion of the Literary Sphere in Yuan China.”

Patricia Sieber

“Fresh Faces for Those Full of Emotions: Zhu Suchen’s Qinlou yue.”

Guo Yingde and Xiaoqiao Ling

“Yuan Mei’s Suiyuan shihua and the Transformation of Qing Dynasty Shihua Writing.”

Jiang Yin; Yugen Wang, translator

“The Life and Afterlife of Ling Zhiyuan (1831-1852) and Her Poetry Collection.”

Grace S. Fong

“Manuscript Culture in Late Western Han, and the Implications for Authors and Authority.”

Michael Nylan

“Primers and Poetry in Ancient China: Shenglü Fameng and Beyond.”

Zhang Jian and Dandan Chen

Facets of Chinese Culture

“Tao Yuanming: A Symbol of Chinese Culture.”

Yuan Xingpei; Alan Berkowitz, translator

“Poetry and Diplomacy in the Zuozhuan.”

Terms, Concepts, and Methods

Wai-yee Li

Zong-qi Cai. “The Richness of Ambiguity: A Mencian Statement and Interpretive Theory and Practice in Pre-modern China”

Text Matters

“The Life of a Text: A Brief History of the Liji 禮記 (Rites Records) and its Transmission.”

Liu Yucai and Luke Habberstad.