Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Paul W. Kroll -- Trading Literary Competence: Exchange Poetry in the Eastern Jin -- Wendy Swartz -- Shen Who Couldn't Write: Literary Relationships at the Court of Liu Jun -- Robert Joe Cutter -- Ruin and Remembrance in Classical Chinese Literature: The "Fu On The Ruined City" by Bao Zhao -- David R. Knechtges -- An Offering to the Prince: Wang Bo's Apology for Poetry -- Ding Xiang Warner -- Beyond Border and Boudoir: The Frontier in the Poetry of the Four Elites of Early Tang -- Timothy Wai Keung Chan -- Heyue yingling ji and the Attributes of High Tang Poetry -- Paul W. Kroll -- Who Wrote That? Attribution in Northern Song Ci -- Stephen Owen -- When There Is a Parallel Text in Prose: Reading Lu You's 1170 Yangzi River Journey in Poetry and Prose -- Ronald Egan -- Judith Gautier and the Invention of Chinese Poetry -- Pauline Yu -- Collective Bibliography -- Index.