Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Poetic Narrative of Change: Du Fu's Poetic Sequence "Going Out the Passes: First Series" (Stephen Owen)
Autobiographical Features in Bai Juyi's "Biography of the Maestro of Mellow Versification" (Victor H. Mair and Rostislav Berezkin)
Luo Binwang's Defense of a Jilted Lady: "Amorous Feelings: On Behalf of Miss Guo Sent to Lu Zhaolin" (David R. Knechtges)
The Fall of Former Shu in 925: An Eyewitness Account (Glen Dudbridge)
The Elder of the Eastern Hall Reforms a Prodigal Son: A Play by Qin Jianfu (Robert E. Hegel)
Time Management and Self-Control: Self-Help Guides in Yuan (Stephen H. West)
Rethinking Li Kaixian's Editorship of Revised Plays by Yuan Masters: A Comparison with His Banter about Lyrics (Tian Yuan Tan)
Singing in Place of Screaming: Subversion As Satire in Late Imperial China (Kimberly Besio)
The Shape of Things: Locating the Self in Xu Wei's Zen Master Yu Has a Voluptuous Dream (Shiamin Kwa)
Passion and Chastity: Meng Chengshun and the Fall of the Ming (Katherine Carlitz)
The Representation of Sovereignty in Chinese Vernacular Fiction (Xiaofei Tian)
Music and Dramatic Lyricism in Hong Sheng's Palace of Eternal Life (Ayling Wang)
Between Performance, Manuscript, and Print: Imagining the Musical Text in Seventeenth-Century Plays and Songbooks (Judith T. Zeitlin)
Guangdong's Talented Women of the Eighteenth Century (Ellen Widmer)
Unorthodox Female Figures in Zhu Suxian's Linked Rings of Jade (Siao-chen Hu)
The Poetess and the Precept Master: A Selection of Daoist Poems by Gu Taiqing (Beata Grant)
In Search of a Genuine Chinese Sound: Jiang Wenye and Modern Chinese Music (David Der-wei Wang)
The Guo Guan Ritual Shadow Play of Huanxian (Frank Kouwenhoven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck)
Rejective Poetry Sound and Sense in Yi Sha (Maghiel van Crevel)
Master of the Web: Chen Cun and the Continuous Avant-Garde (Michel Hockx)
Wilt Idema: A Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
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