Volume 3 Issue 1, April 2016

Table of Contents

Whose Voice is it Anyway? A Rereading of Wang Changling’s “Autumn in the Palace of Everlasting Faith: Five Poems”

PAULA VARSANO

Chanting Dharanis While Dreaming of Lilacs: Buddhism and Beijing in Gong Zizhen’s Poems of 1839

STEPHEN J. RODDY

Virtuous Wives and Shrews in Feng Shuangfei: Empowering Female Characters through a Revision of Stereotypes

WENJIA LIU

Facets of Chinese Culture

Literati and Poems About Go (weiqi 圍棋)

QI DONGFANG; LUKE HABBERSTAD, translator

The Ancient Qin 琴, Musical Instrument of Cultured Chinese Gentlemen

TIAN QING; SCOTT DAVIS, translator

Apocrypha and Literary Rhetoric of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasty Periods

XU XINGWU; COTT DAVIS, translator

Text Matters

From Stage Scripts to Closet Drama: Editions of Early Chinese Drama and the Translations of Yuan Zaju

WILT L. IDEMA

Volume 3 Issue 2, November 2016

Special Issue

The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities

Guest Editor David Der-wei Wang

Table of Contents

The Literary Mind and the Carving of Modernities

DAVID DER-WEI WANG

Addressing Classical Theories Anew

The “Natural Rhythm” of Chinese Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives Since 1919
YU-YU CHENG

MING-TAK TED HUI & CHIEN-HSIN TSAI, translators

From Modernity to Tradition: Zhu Ziqing’s Chinese Literary Criticism
LEONARD KWOK KOU CHAN

Chinese Literary Thought in Modern Times: Shi, Xing, Shishi
DAVID DER-WEI WANG

Reorienting Modern Subjectivities

Poetry as Memoir: Shi Zhecun’s Miscellaneous Poems of A Floating Life
KANG-I SUN CHANG

A Paper Mirror: Autobiographical Moments in Modern Chinese Poetry
SHENGQING WU

Who Am I? Identity, Resistance, and Resilience in the Classical-Style Poetry of Nie Gannu
HAOSHENG YANG

Lu Xun and The Politics of Archaism

On the Critical Reception of Lu Xun’s Early Classical-style Essays of the Japan Period
JON EUGENE VON KOWALLIS

Lu Xun the Critical Buddhist: A Monstrous Ekayāna
LEI YING

Against the Grain of History

In Search of Humanity in the Mao Era: The Contemporary Classical Poetry of Chen Yinke, Nie Gannu, and Wang Xindi
XIA ZHONGYI
BRIAN SKERRATT, translator

Song History in Kowloon and Loyalist Classical Poetry: Chen Botao, Sung Wong Toi, and Autumn Chants on the Terrace of the Song Emperors
KO CHIA-CIAN
ANDY RODEKOHR, translator