Volume 4 Issue 1, April 2017

Editors YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI

Table of Contents

On Hu Shih’s Coattails: Reflections on and Prognostications for Research on Chan Buddhism

GE ZHAOGUANG

JASON PROTASS, translator

Southern Osmanthus and Northern Pear: The Garden of Xiang Ziyin as a Site of Memory in the Writings of Southern Song Literati

BENJAMIN RIDGWAY

Between the Interior and the Artifactual: Reading the Ci Space

LEI CHEN

Reinventing the Pre-Tang Tradition: Compiling and Publishing Pre-Tang Poetry Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century China

JING CHEN

Lust as Prerequisite: Eroticism in The Story of the Stone

HSIEN WU

Gendering the Planchette: Woman Writer Qian Xi’s (1872–1930) Spiritual World

YANNING WANG

Terms, Concepts, and Methods

Toward an Innovative Poetics: Wang Changling on Yi 意 and Literary Creation

ZONG-QI CAI

Volume 4  •  Issue 2 •  November 2017

Special Issue

Song Dynasty Literature and Culture

Guest Editor Ronald Egan

Table of Contents

Introduction

RONALD EGAN

Su Shi Studies

Su Shi’s Gift to Zhuo Qishun and the Sociality of Calligraphy

XIAOSHAN YANG

The Past Lives of Su Shi: Stories of Truth and Adaptation

ZHU GANG and ZHAO HUIJUN

XIAO RAO, translator

A Study of Su Shi’s Calligraphy Scroll Containing “Rhapsody on Dongting Spring Colors Wine” and “Rhapsody on Pine Wine of Zhongshan”

I LO-FEN

RONALD EGAN, translator

The Literary Past, Literature and Moral Values

Defining the “Finest”: A Northern Song View of Tang Dynasty Literary Culture in the Wen cui

ANNA M. SHIELDS

What Was Good Writing (or Reading) in Eleventh-Century China? Rethinking Guwen and Its Relation to Daoxue

HSIAO-WEN CHENG

A Family of Filial Exemplars: The Baos of Luzhou in the Northern Song

CONG ELLEN ZHANG

Poetry

Returning Empty-handed: Reading the Yifan feng Corpus as Buddhist Parting Poetry

JASON PROTASS

Poems with Contested Meanings

RONALD EGAN