Early Medieval China 

 

Volume 12,  2006

 

 

ARTICLES

 

Letters and Letter Writing in Early Medieval China

ANTJE RICHTER ..............................................................................  1

 

The Circulation and Study of the Shishuo Xinyu in Korea

KIM JANG-HWAN and LILY XIAO HONG LEE ........................................  31

 

The Drama of Numskulls: Structure, Texture, and Functions of

        the Scripture of One Hundred Parables

YUET KEUNG LO ............................................................................  69

 

The Last Lord of the South: Chen Houzhu (r. 583–589) and the

        Reunification of China

CHARLES HOLCOMBE..................................................................... 91

 

An Inquiry into Reign Era Changes under Wu Zhao, China’s

        Only Female Emperor

NORMAN HARRY ROTHSCHILD ......................................................  123

 

SCHOLARLY  NOTE

 

The Reclusive Gui—Cinnamon or Osmanthus?

CYNTHIA L. CHENNAULT................................................................ 151

 

BOOK  REVIEWS

 

On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang.  Mirroring the Past: The

      Writing and Use of History in Imperial China

WILLIAM G. CROWELL ...................................................................  183

 

Yuan Xingpei.  Tao Yuanming ji jianzhu 陶淵明集箋注

YUE HONG................................................................................... 205

 

 

Annette Kieser.  Grabanlagen der Herrscherhäuser der südlichen Dynastien in China (420-589).

Geisterwege und Gräber im Spiegel der Geschichte

UTA WEIGELT ...............................................................................  208

 

EVENTS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

“China: Dawn of a Golden Age: 200–750 AD” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

GUOLONG LAI ..............................................................................  215

 

Early Medieval China in the MLA Index  

JUNG-HWA LEE and JAMES McDOUGALL .…………………………………. 221