Early Medieval China 9 (2004)

Articles:

The Reunification of China in AD 280: Jin’s Conquest of

Eastern Wu

JOHN W. KILLIGREW................................................................................................... 1

The Development of Local Writing in Early Medieval China

ANDREW CHITTICK…………………………………………………………………35

Self as Historical Artifact: Ge Hong and Early Chinese

Autobiographical Writing

MATTHEW WELLS............................................................................ 71

Composed at Execution: A Look at Three “Poems upon

Confronting the End” (linzhong shi)

FUSHENG WU.......................................................................................................... 105

Book Reviews

David Graff. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900

SCOTT PEARCE....................................................................................................... 145

Zongli Lu. Power of the Words: Chen Prophecy in Chinese

Politics (AD 265-618)

VICTOR CUNRUI XIONG......................................................................................... 149

Annette Kieser. Landadel, Emigranten, Emporkömmlinge—
Familienfried-höfe des 3.-6. Jh. n. Chr. in Südchina

INA ASIM..................................................................................................................... 152

Thomas Jansen. Höfische Öffentlichkeit im frühmittel-

alterlichen China: Debatten im Salon des Prinzen

Xiao Ziliang

MONIQUE NAGEL-ANGERMANN.......................................................................... 156

Victor C. Xiong. Sui-Tang Chang’an: A Study in the Urban

History of Medieval China

SHERRY J. MOU....................................................................................................... 162

A Note on Some Recent Scholarship of Richard B. Mather

ALAN BERKOWITZ................................................................................................... 171

CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

Bathing in the River Yi: A Symposium on Traditional Chinese Literature in Honor of David R. Knechtges

CHIU-MI LAI................................................................................................................ 177

The First International Conference on Ge Hong and Chinese

Culture

KEITH KNAPP............................................................................................................ 179

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers

CURTIS DEAN SMITH.............................................................................................. 180