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Volume 9 • Issue 1 • April 2022
Critical Theory and PreModern Chinese Literature
STEPHEN RODDY and ZONG-QI CAI, Special Issue Editors

Introduction
STEPHEN J. RODDY
Reflecting on the Past
The Elusiveness of Commonality: Late Twentieth-Century Sinology and the Search for a Shared Lyric Language
PAULA VARSANO
Secret Laid Bare: Close Reading of Chinese Poetry
XINDA LIAN
Decentering Sinas: Poststructuralism and Sinology
LUCAS KLEIN
Feminist Theories and Women Writers of Late Imperial China: Impact and Critique
GRACE S. FONG
Looking to the Future
Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature: The Case of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷
MARTIN KERN
Mouvance in Medieval Chinese Textual Culture: Lunyu 論語 in a Dunhuang Florilegium
CHRISTOPHER M. B. NUGENT
Theories of Spatiality and the Study of Medieval China
MANLING LUO
Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater (Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
PATRICIA SIEBER
Inward Turns, Then and Now
ALEXANDER DES FORGES
Contributors