CONTENTS Volume 27 EDITORIAL ESSAYS AND ARTICLES SYMPOSIUM: Memory and Chinese Texts Lynn STRUVE, “Introduction to the Symposium” Alan BARR, “The Ming History Inquisition in Personal Memoir and Public Memory” Grade FONG, “Inscribing a Sense of Self in Mother’s Family: Hong Liangji’s (1746-1809) Memoir and Poetry of Remembrance” Rania HUNTINGTON, “Chaos, Memory, and Genre: Anecdotal Recollections of the Taiping Rebellion” Philip KAFALAS, “Mnemonic Locations: The Housing of Personal Memory in Prose from the Ming and Qing” Keith MCMAHON, “Cultural Destiny and Polygynous Love in Zou Tao’s Shanghai Dust” SCHOLARLY NOTE Ying WANG, “The Disappearance of the Simulated Oral Context and the Use of the Supernatural Realm in Honglou meng” REVIEW ARTICLE John KOWALLIS, “Lu Xun: the Sexier Story —-A Review Article” REVIEWS OF BOOKS Kang-I SUN CHANG, The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China, by Wilt Idema and Beata Grant John A. CRESPI, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, by Charles A. Laughlin Gerald GILLESPIE, Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel, by Eric Hayot William H. NIENHAUSER, Jr., Geschichte der chinesischen Literatur, ed. by Wolfgang Kubin William H. NIENHAUSER, Jr., Li T’ai-po, Gesammelte Gedichte, trans. Erwin Ritter von Zach, ed by Hartmut Walravens Haun SAUSSY, Writing and Materiality in China: Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan, ed. by Judith 1 Zeitlin and Lydia H. Liu; Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, ed. by Cynthia J Brokaw and Kai-wing Chow Bert SCRUGGS, Out of the Crucible: Literary Works about the Rusticated Youth, by Cao Zuoya Paula VARSANO, Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere: Gardens and Objects in Tang-Song Poetry, by Xiaoshan Yang Sophie VOLPP, Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera, by Siu Leung Li Jingyuan ZHANG, Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema by Shuqin Cui FORUM William H. NIENHAUSER, Jr., “A Biography Liu Dajie” BRIEF NOTICES