Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Korean and Japanese Portraits of Ideal Lovers -- 2. Yamada Bimyo'̄s "Musashino" and the Development of Early Meiji Historical Fiction -- 3. From Atomized to Networked: Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Twentieth-century Chinese Narrative -- 4. Sex for Sex's Sake?The "Genital Writings" of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers -- 5. In and Out of Home: Bing Xin Recontextualized -- 6. From Enlightenment to Sinology: Early European Suggestions on How to Learn Chinese, 1770-1840 -- 7. Chinese Avant-garde Theater: New Trends in Chinese Experimental Drama near the Close of the Twentieth Century -- 8. Malraux's Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence -- 9. Reception, Reappropriation, and Reinvention: Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Elite Women's Reading Practices in Late Choso˘n Korea -- 10. Some Women Writers and their Works in Classical Sanskrit Literature: A Reinterpretation -- About the Contributors -- Index.