Writing and Materiality in China
Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan
Edited by Judith T. Zeitlin
Edited by Lydia H. Liu
With Ellen Widmer
Illustrations
Preface
Ellen Widmer
Contributors
Introduction
Lydia H. Liu and Judith T. Zeitlin
Part I: The Circulation of Writing
On Rubbings: Their Materiality and Historicity
Wu Hung
Disappearing Verses: Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss
Judith T. Zeitlin
The Literary Consumption of Actors in Seventeenth-Century China
Sophie Volpp
Part II: Print Culture and Networks of Reading
Jin Ping Mei and Late Ming Print Culture
Shang Wei
Duplicating the Strength of Feeling: The Circulation of Qingshu in the Late Ming
Kathryn Lowry
Considering a Coincidence: The "Female Reading Public" Circa 1828
Ellen Widmer
Part III: The Late Qing Periodical Press: New Images, New Fiction
The New Novel Before the New Novel: John Fryer's Fiction Contest
Anonymous
The Weird in the Newspaper
Rania Huntington
Creating the Urban Beauty: The Shanghai Courtesan in Late Qing Illustrations
Catherine Vance Yeh
Part IV: Ethnography, Media, and Ideology
Texts on the Right and Pictures on the Left: Reading the Qing Record of Frontier Taiwan
Emma J. Teng
Tope and Topos: The Leifeng Pagoda and the Discourse of the Demonic
Eugene Y. Wang
A Folksong Immortal and Official Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century China
Lydia H. Liu
Reference Matter
Index


![[Add to Cart]](../site_graphics/order/add_cart.jpg)