Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Robert Ford Campany and Wendy Swartz; Chapter 1; Artful Remembrance: Reading, Writing, and Reconstructing the Fallen State in Lu Ji's "Bian wang"; Meow Hui Goh; Chapter 2; Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Early Medieval China: Jiang Yan's Imitations of Nearly Lost and Lost Writers; Wendy Swartz; Chapter 3; On Mourning and Sincerity in the Li ji and the Shishuo xinyu; Jack W. Chen; Chapter 4; "Making Friends with the Men of the Past": Literati Identity and Literary Remembering in Early Medieval China; Ping Wang; Chapter 5.