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Editors' Note

Wendy Swartz, Xiaofei Tian
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944104
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Inscribing the Foreign in Early Medieval China: Xiao Yi's (508–555) “Preface to Illustrations of Tribute Bearers”

Robert Joe Cutter
pp. 2-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944095
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Poems on Painting from the High Tang to Later Tang Periods

Ronald Egan
pp. 19-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944101
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Cranes at Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Courts

David Knechtges
pp. 45-58
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944097
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Jiang Yan and Friend

Paul W. Kroll
pp. 59-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944102
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Southbound: Fantasies of the Plebeian in the Southern Dynasties

Stephen Owen
pp. 75-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944099
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Gesture and the Movements of Literary Creativity: Lu Ji's “Rhapsody on Literature”

Wendy Swartz
pp. 90-100
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944098
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“Autumn Thoughts”: Shared Images, Shifting Phrases, and Promiscuous Poetics

Stephen H. West
pp. 101-120
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944096
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The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape by Joanne Tsao (review)

Meow Hui Goh
pp. 121-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944103
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Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford (review)

Lu Kou
pp. 124-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/emc.2021.a944100
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