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Volume 9  •  Issue 2 •  November 2022

Editors YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI 

Table of Contents

Rereading a Poetics of Divination:

Oracular Visuality and Iterations of Landscape in Wei-Jin Lyricism

THOMAS DONNELLY NOEL

The Power of Nostalgia: Memory, Identity, and Authority in the Shishuo xinyu 

QIULEI HU

“In the Mountain Forest I lose My Self”:

The Experience of No-Self in Wang Wei’s Short Landscape Poems

TERO TÄHTINEN

What Do Jokes Reveal about Trust in Ming Work Relations?

SARAH SCHNEEWIND

Space and Identity: Self-representation of a Ming Nanjing Courtesan in Transformation

JIANI CHEN

Facets of Chinese Culture

The Boundary of Chinese Music:

A Cultural and Aesthetic Comparison Between Pipa and Guqin

IVAN YIFAN ZOU, YACHING TSAI, and WILLIAM SHI-YUAN WANG

Book Reviews

Peter Francis Kornicki. Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

MINGHUI HU

Suyoung Son. Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.

LING HON LAM

Li Ling. The Chu Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan Province). Volume 1: Discovery and Transmission.

 Translated and edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020.

MICHAEL NYLAN

Jiushan Shuhui. Top Graduate Zhang Xie: The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play. Translated and introduced by Regina S. Liamas. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.

YING WANG

Chen Jun  陳君. Runse hongye: Hanshu wenben de xingcheng yu zaoqi chuanbo 潤色鴻業:漢書文本的形成與早期傳播 (Embellishing the Imperial Order: The Formation of the Hanshu and Its Circulation in Medieval China). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2020.

XU JIANWEI

HARDY STEWART, Translator

Zhang Yue 張月 and Chen Yinchi 陳引馳. Zhonggu wenxue zhong de shi yu shi 中古文學中的詩與史 (The Interrelation of Poetry and History in Medieval Literature). Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2020. 

ISAAC YUE

Xiaoshan Yang. Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.

YUE ZHANG

Titles in Chinese Literature from Academic Monthly 學術月刊