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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. 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
  • pt. 3. 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
  • pt. 4. 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.