CONTENTS Volume 18 EDITORIAL ESSAYS AND ARTICLES Lothar VON FALKENHAUSEN, “The Concept of Wen in the Ancient Chinese Ancestral Cult” David Mc CRAW, “Hanging By a Thread: Li He’s Deviant Closures” Yenna WU, “Outlaws’ Dreams of Power and Position in Shuihu zhuan” Michael YANG, “Naming in Honglou meng” Maram EPSTEIN, “Engendering Order: Structure, Gender, and Meaning ” Anne WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG, “One Kind of Chinese Reality: Reading Yu Hua” REVIEW ARTICLES Grant HARDY, “His Honor the Grand Scribe Says . . .” Jon KOWALLIS, “Interpreting Lu Xun” Jonathan PEASE, “Same Song, New Words: Julie Landau’s Renditions of Sung Tzu” REVIEWS OF BOOKS Cynthia BROKAW, Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China by Dorothy Ko Katherine CARLITZ, Literati and Self-Re/Presentation: Autobiographical Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel, by Martin Huang James M. HARGETT, Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China, by Richard E. Strassberg Robert E. HEGEL, Chinese Mythology: An Introduction, by Anne M. Birrell Karen KINGSBURY, The Chinese Femme Fatale: Stories from the Ming Period, trans. by Anne E. McLaren, and The Virtue of Yin: Studies on Chinese Women, by Lily Xiao Hong Lee Oldtich KRAL, Village Echoes: The Fiction of Wu Zuxiang, by Philip F. Williams William H. NIENHAUSER, Jr., The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writings of Sima Qian, by Stephen W. Durrant Janet NG, Strange Tales from Strange Lands: Stories from Zheng Wanlong, edited and with an introduction by Kam Louie David L. ROSTON, From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative, by Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu Conrad SCHIROKAUER, Literati and Self-Re/Presentation: Autobiographical Sensibility in the Eighteenth Century Chinese Novel, by Martin Huang Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 18 (1996) Kristina M. TORGESON, A Snowy Morning: Eight Chinese Poets on the Road to Modernity, by Michel Hockx Jeffrey TWITCHELL-WASS, Death in a Cornfield and Other Stories from Contemporary Taiwan, edited by Ching-Hsi Perng Ellen WIDMER, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction, by Keith McMahon BRIEF NOTICES eaeeeE y ot toc