Issues

research articles:
PENG XU on professional singing teachers during the late Ming
SACHI SCHMIDT-HORI on gender construction in medieval Japanese acolyte tales
EDWARD L. SHAUGHNESSY on the Classic of Poetry and the limits of orality
RUYUE HE and MICHAEL NYLAN on the origins of the postface to the Documents

review essays:
DONALD L. BAKER on Tonghak and Korean religious movements
ELENA BARABANTSEVA on US-Chinese historical migrations & identities

research articles:
ANDREW HUI on Buddhist allegory in the perplexing ending of Journey to the West
OLIVER WEINGARTEN on the social role of disciples in early Chinese texts
CHARLES HARTMAN and CHO-YING LI on literati resistance during the Song

research articles:
SOOKJA CHO on the transmission and transformation of a Chinese love story in Korea
RICHARD VON GLAHN on Sino-Japanese maritime trade during the Song & Yuan
DAVID SPAFFORD on the flexibility of the late medieval Japanese house (ie)

research articles:
XIAOQIAO LING on seventeenth-century Chinese literary representations of law
ROBERT TUCK on changing narratives of Sino-Japanese literary history

research articles:
DAVID BROPHY on the role of Muslims in Qing-ruled Xinjiang
LAWRENCE ZHANG on the effects of purchasing offices on the Qing bureaucracy
AKIKO WALLEY on Japanese Buddhist statue inscriptions

research articles:
HEATHER BLAIR on the role of ritual in early medieval Japanese politics
SUKHEE LEE on the complex relations of local elites and the Southern Song state

review essay:
David McMullen on literary textual production during the Tang

research articles:
JIE SHI on changing views of the afterlife in early medieval China
JEFFREY MOSER with a new view of collecting antiquities during the Song
WAI-YEE LI on the representation of gardens in late imperial Chinese literature
GLYNNE WALLEY on the construction of gender and morality in a Tokugawa popular novel

research articles:
HANSUN HSIUNG on bookkeeping in the thought of Meiji-era reformers
CHARLOTTE EUBANKS on Buddhist oratory and desire in medieval Japan
BEVERLY BOSSLER on the emergence of Tang courtesan culture
YOUNG-JUN LEE on the language of liminality in modern Korean poetry