Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The composition of the book
  • The gallery of portraits re-created
  • Liu Yuan's cover leaf
  • Prefatory autographs
  • The preface writers license the pictorial book
  • The list of contents
  • Lingyan ge, the historical site
  • Composing the vassal's figure
  • Unordinary images
  • Physiognomic fantasies
  • Costumes in disarray
  • Under the guise of bandits
  • The act of turning the leaf
  • Structures of the book
  • Re-reading Du Fu
  • The damask at leaf's edge
  • The publication of the book
  • Painter, publisher, reader-viewer : whose gallery?
  • The "social drama" of the Ming-Qing transition
  • Liu Yuan and Tong Pengnian
  • A model for community : echoing voices among the preface writers
  • Climbing Yingzhou : Wu Weiye's response
  • Vexations of passage
  • Variant endings
  • Maxims, furtively impressed
  • In the hands of all the masters
  • From manuscript to printed book
  • - Appendix. Liu Yuan's Lingyan ge with annotated translations
  • Reference matter
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Character list
  • Index.