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Poetry Matters: Interpretative Community, pailü, and "Yingying zhuan"

Ao Wang
pp. 1-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0000
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Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Tales

Linda Rui Feng
pp. 35-68
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0003
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Fund-Raising Wars: Office Selling and Interprovincial Finance in Nineteenth-Century China

Elisabeth Kaske
pp. 69-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0006
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The Sword or the Needle: The Female Knight-Errant (xia) in Traditional Chinese Narrative (review)

Allan H. Barr
pp. 143-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0008
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Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (review)

Michael K. Bourdaghs
pp. 148-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0010
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The Power of the Buddhas: The Politics of Buddhism During the Koryŏ Dynasty (918-1392) (review)

Remco Breuker
pp. 155-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0012
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Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China (review)

Prasenjit Duara
pp. 163-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0014
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Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (review)

Xiaofei Kang
pp. 169-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0002
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Reflections in a Glass Door: Memory and Melancholy in the Personal Writings of Natsume Sōseki (review)

Seiji M. Lippit
pp. 176-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0005
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Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales (review)

Elizabeth Oyler
pp. 182-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0007
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Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China (review)

Shang Wei
pp. 189-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0009
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Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan (review)

Sarah Thal
pp. 195-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0011
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Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China (review)

Franciscus Verellen
pp. 204-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0013
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Negotiating Urban Space: Urbanization and Late Ming Nanjing (review)

Richard von Glahn
pp. 209-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0001
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Leprosy in China: A History (review)

Yi-Li Wu
pp. 220-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jas.2011.0004
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