Volume 9 • Issue 2 • November 2022
Editors YUAN XINGPEI and ZONG-QI CAI
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
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