1．Hsü Chen-ya's Yü-li hun：An Essay in Literary History and Criticism&C.T.Hsia 1
2．Formation of Modern Subjectivity and Essay：Zhou Shoujuan's“In the Nine-Flower Curtain”&Jianhua Chen 72
3．The Beginnings of Mass Culture：Journalism and Fiction in the Late Ch'ing and Beyond& Leo Ou-fan Lee and Andrew J.Nathan 110
4．Edifying Depravity：The Courtesan Novel&David Der-wei Wang 170
5．Narrative Modes in Late Qing Novels&Milena Dole？elová-Velingerová 274
6．The Second Stage of Vernacular Translation&Patrick Hanan 302
7．New Ways of Writing&Theodore Huters 329
8．Synchronized Reading：Installment Aesthetics and the Formation of the Mediasphere&Alexander Des Forges 373
编后记 410