Volume 8  •  Issue 2 •  November 2021

Editors YUANXINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI

Table of Contents

Cumulative Structure in Zhuangzi's “The Great and Venerable Teacher”

XINDA LIAN

The Divided Liang Dynasty Literary World Seen through the Liu-Dao Dispute

WANG XIAOMENG and JING CHEN

Guo Xi on Painting the Invisible Gaze of the Dao

DAVID CHAI

Plays within Songs: Sanqu Songs from Literary Refinement (ya) to Popular Appeal (su)

WANG SHIH-PE

ERXIN WANG，translator

Riddles in Jin Ping Mei  

THOMAS KELLY

The Textual Architecture of Empire in Two Early Qing Anthologies

JESSICA DVORAK MOYER

Marginalia Transcription and Scholarly Culture in the Qing Dynasty

WEI YINZONG

Book Reviews

N. Harry Rothschild and Leslie V. Wallace, eds. Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017

ROBERT ASHMORE

Klaus Mühlhahn. Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.

MINGHUI HU

Li Yu. A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China. Translated by Shen, Jing and Robert E. Hegel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

YING WANG

Wendy Swartz. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.

YUE ZHANG

Xiaofei Tian. The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian'an and the Three Kingdoms. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.

YUE ZHANG