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Volume 12 • Issue 2 • November 2025
Editors: YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI
Table of Contents
Good Things Come in Pairs: A Computational Study of Poetic Parallelism in the Six Dynasties.
ZONG-QI CAI, MACIEJ KURZYNSKI, and XIAOTONG XU
Beheaded Meanings and Anonymous Signifiers: Forms of Truth and Conditions for Its Emergence in Late Ming Court Case Fiction.
JINSU KIM
De-eroticizing the Inner Chamber: Zhou Qi’s Ekphrastic Colophon in Lady at Dressing Table by Wang Qiao.
LEIHUA WENG
Reconstructing Confucian Masculinity: Chen Tingzhuo’s Poetic Ideal of “Depth and Circuitousness.”
FAN WU
The Biji xiaoshuo 筆記小說 Tradition and News Media: The Dianshizhai Pictorial 點石齋畫報 as a Case Study.
YING WANG
Book Reviews
Albert Galvany, ed. The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China. SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany: SUNY Press, 2023.
PAUL R. GOLDIN
Yamamoto Yoshitaka 山本嘉孝. Shibun to keisei: Bakufu jushin no jūhasseiki 詩文と経世：幕府儒臣の十八世紀 (Poetry, Prose, and Governance: The Eighteenth Century of Confucian Officials of the Shogunate). Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2021.
Ibi Takashi 揖斐高. Edo Kanshi no jōkei: Fūga to nichijō 江戸漢詩の情景：風雅と日常 (The Emotions and Landscape of Edo Kanshi: Elegance and the Everyday). Tokyo: Iwanami Shinsho no. 1940, 2022.
Sugishita Motoaki 杉下元明. Hikaku bungaku to shite no Edo Kanshi 比較文学としての江戸漢詩 (Edo Kanshi as Comparative Literature). Tokyo: Kyūko shoin, 2023.
Jonathan Chaves and Matthew Fraleigh. The Same Moon Shines on All: The Livesand Selected Poems of Yanagawa Seigan and Kōran. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024.
STEPHEN RODDY
Keith McMahon. Saying All That Can Be Said: The Art of Describing Sex in Jin Ping Mei. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023.
Jiwei Xiao. Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature. New York: Routledge, 2022.
MARY SCOTT
Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas, eds. How to Read Chinese Drama: A Guided Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
Wilt L. Idema, Wai-Yee Li, and Stephen H.West, eds. A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023
YING WANG
Titles in Chinese Literature from Academic Monthly 學術月刊.