INVITED ARTICLES 1
Orality in Performance：The Art of Classical Xiaoshuo&Timothy C.WONG 1
The Promises and Challenges of Teaching History through Television&Eduardo PAG？N 8
GLOBALIZATION AND CHINESENESS 22
Globalization and Chengdu：A Response to Eduardo Pagán&David PICKUS 22
Idea-scape（yijing）：Understanding Imagery in the Chinese Poetic Tradition&Louis Liuxi MENG 29
Anxiety of Glocalization：Contemporary Chinese Art Responding to Western Influence&Lian DUAN 49
COMPARATIVE STUDIES 57
Aestheticization of Illness in A Dream of The Red Mansions&Xinjun ZHANG,Qizhi LIU 57
Bing Xin Studies in the English Speaking World：A Critical Survey&Tanfeng ZHANG,Linxin JIANG 71
LITERATURE AND SPACE 90
The Pursuit of"A Room of Her Own"—Virginia Woolf's Search for Female Subjectivity in Her Individual Space in The Hours&Danping SUN 90
Spatial Structures in Constructing Progressive Black Masculinities in The Men of Brewster Place&Jiamin QI 101
LITERARE AND SOCIETY 110
The Intellectual as a Free and Rational Man：On Mills'The Sociological Imagination&Lin XIANG 110
The World as a Community：The Communal Voice in The Temple of My Familiar&Xiaoli FANG 126
A Motivation Psychoanalysis of Buck's Self-transformation in The Call of the Wild&Yulong ZHU 136