Inhalt: Illustrations -- Contributors -- Preface / Ellen Widmer -- Introduction / Lydia H. Liu (S. 1) -- On Rubbings: Their Materiality and Historicity / Wu Hung (S. 29) -- Disappearing Verses: Writing on Walls and Anxieties of Loss / Judith T. Zeitlin (S. 73) -- The Literary Consumption of Actors in Seventeenth- Century China / Sophie Volpp (S. 133) -- Jin Ping Mei and Late Ming Print Culture / Shang Wei (S. 187) -- Duplicating the Strength of Feeling: The Circulation of Qingshu in the Late Ming / Kathryn Lowry (S. 239) -- Considering a Coincidence: The "Female Reading Public" Circa 1828 / Ellen Widmer (S. 273) -- The New Novel Before the New Novel: John Fryer's Fiction Contest (S. 317) -- The Weird in the Newspaper / Rania Huntington (S. 341) -- Creating the Urban Beauty: The Shanghai Courtesan in Late Qing Illustrations / Catherine Vance Yeh (S. 397) -- Texts on the Right and Pictures on the Left: Reading the Qing Record of Frontier Taiwan / Emma J. Teng (S. 451) -- Tope and Topos: The Leifeng Pagoda and the Discourse of the Demonic / Eugene Y. Wang (S. 488) -- A Folksong Immortal and Official Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century China / Lydia H. Liu (S. 553) -- Index (S. 613).
