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