ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION --- Daria Berg -- PART ONE READING MULTIPLE DISCOURSES -- CHAPTER ONE LIAOZHAI ZHIYI AND CHINESE VERNACULAR FICTION --- Allan H. Barr -- CHAPTER TWO THE ALLUSIVE MODE OF PRODUCTION: TEXT, COMMENTARY, AND ILLUSTRATION IN THE TIANZHANG GE EDITION OF XIXIANG JI (THE STORY OF THE WESTERN WING) --- Li-ling Hsiao -- CHAPTER THREE NARRATING THE PASSAGE OF TEXT: READING MULTIPLE EDITIONS OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVEL HUAYUE HEN (TRACES OF FLOWERS AND THE MOON) --- Chloë Starr -- CHAPTER FOUR CONFLICTING DISCOURSE AND THE DISCOURSE OF CONFLICT: EREMITISM AND THE PASTORAL IN THE POETRY OF RUAN DACHENG (c.1587-1646) --- Alison Hardie -- PART TWO EDITING, RECONSTRUCTING AND REWRITING HISTORY -- CHAPTER FIVE 'LIFE' AS THEY KNEW IT: DU ZHONGYUAN'S EDITORIAL STRATEGIES FOR THE XINSHENG (NEW LIFE) WEEKLY, 1934-35 --- Rana Mitter -- CHAPTER SIX THE AFTERLIFE OF A LOST BOOK-DU JI (THE RECORD OF JEALOUS WOMEN) FIFTH CENTURY --- Carolyn Ford -- CHAPTER SEVEN A READING OF HOU JING'S REBELLION IN ZIZHI TONGJIAN (COMPREHENSIVE MIRROR TO AID GOVERNMENT): THE CONSTRUCTION OF SIMA GUANG'S IMPERIAL VISION --- Mark Strange -- CHAPTER EIGHT FEMALE SELF-FASHIONING IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA: HOW THE GENTLEWOMAN AND THE COURTESAN EDITED HER STORY AND REWROTE HI/STORY --- Daria Berg -- GLOSSARY -- LIST OF WORKS CITED -- Sources Cited by Abbreviation -- Other Sources -- INDEX.