HARVARD JOURNAL OF ASIATIC STUDIES
VOLUME 59, NUMBER 2 , DECEMBER 1999

CONTENTS

Song and the Historical Imagination in Early China
    
DAVID SCHABERG                                                             
305
Heroic Transformations: Women and National Trauma in Early Q,ing Literature
     WAI-YEE LI                                                           
363
Taiwan as a Living Museum: Tropes of Anachronism in Late-Imperial Chinese Travel Writing
     EMMA TENG
445
The Shogun's Consort: Konoe Hiroko and Tokugawa Ienobu
    
CECILIA SEGAWA SEIGLE
485
Fractured Dialogues: Mono no aware and Poetic Communication in The Tale of Genji
    
TOMIKO YODA                                                                
523
The Metropolitan Uncanny in the Works of Izumi Kyoka: A Counter-discourse on Japan's Modernization
    
CHIYOKO KAWAKAMI                                                           
559
Reviews:
Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction by Joel R. Cohn
     PAUL ANDERER                                                           
585
Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China by Robert E. Hegel
    
ALLAN H. BARR                                      
589
In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion by Mu-chou Poo
     LOTHAR VON FALKENHAUSEN                             
598
Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century Japan by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
     W.  WAYNE FARRIS                                   
613
Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant "Other" in Modern Chinese Literature by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker
    
BONNIE S. McDOUGALL                                
618
The Emergence of Japanese Kingship  by Joan R. Figgott
     I. J. McMULLEN                                     
623
Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables by Anne E. McLaren
     DANIEL L. OVERMYER                                
629
Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre by Maggie Bickford
     PETER STURMAN                                       
637
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 by James A. Millward
    
JOANNA WALEY-COHEN                                  
646