CONTENTS Volume 14 EDITORIAL ESSAYS AND ARTICLES Grant R. HARDY, "Form and Narrative in Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi" Daniel BRYANT, "Syntax, Sound and Sentiment in Old Nanking: Wang Shih-chen's ‘Miscellaneous Poems on the Ch'in-huai'" Deborah PORTER, "Setting the Tone: Aesthetic Implications of Linguistic Patterns in the Opening Section of Shui-hu chuan" Shuen-fu LIN, "Chia Pao-yti's First Visit to the Land of Illusion: An Analysis of a Literary Dream in an Interdisciplinary Perspective" Kirk DENTON, "The Distant Shore: The Nationalist Theme in Yu Dafu's 'Sinking.'" REVIEWS OF BOOKS Zu-yan CHEN, Tu Mu (803-852): His Life and Poetry, by Wen-kai Kung Kenneth J. DeWOSKIN, Chinese Ideas about Nature and Society: Studies in Honour of Derk Bodde, edited by Charles Le Blanc and Susan Blader Jack DULL, Men of the Cliffs and Caves: The Development of the Chinese Eremitic Tradition to the End of the Han Dynasty, by Aat Vervoorn Grace S. FONG, The Late-Ming Poet Ch’en Tzu-lung: Crises of Love and Loyalism, by Kang-i Sun Chang Charles HARTMAN, Le monde en petit: jardins en miniature et habitations dans la pensée religieuse d'Extréme-Orient, by Rolf A. Stein, and The World in Miniature: Container Gardens and Dwellings in Far Eastern Religious Thought, by Rolf A. Stein, translated by Phyllis Brooks Stephan HASE-BERGEN, Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur, by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer Catherine KARLITZ, The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel, by Andrew H. Plaks Charles A. PETERSON, Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization, edited by Paul S. Ropp Robert REYNOLDS, Ku-chi hsti-tzu kuang-i, by Wang Shu-min, and Tso- chuan hsti-tzu yen-chiu, by He Leshi Paul ROUZER, Wen-lin, Volume II: Studies in Chinese Humanities, edited by Tse-tsung Chow Stuart SARGENT, Research Tools for the Study of Sung History, by Peter K. Bol FORUM David PALUMBO-LIU, "The Utopia of Discourse: On the Impossibility of Chinese Comparative Liteature” BRIEF NOTICES ERRATA ET CORRIEGENDA