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

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Judith T. Zeitlin is Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Chicago.

Lydia H. Liu is Helmut F. Stern Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan.

Ellen Widmer is Professor of Chinese Literature at Wesleyan University.