Table of Contents:
  • There are maggots in my soup! : medieval accounts of unfilial children / Keith N. Knapp
  • Negative role models : unfilial stories in Song miscellaneous writing / Cong Ellen Zhang
  • Copulating with one's stepmother or birth mother? / Paul R. Goldin
  • Intransigent and corrupt officials during the early Han / Anthony Barbieri-Low
  • Ritual without rules : Han-Dynasty mourning practice revisited / Miranda Brown and Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Regue
  • Bad writing : cursive calligraphy and the ethics of orthography in the eastern Han Dynasty / Vincent S. Leung
  • Wild youths and fallen officials : falconry and moral opprobrium in early medieval China / Leslie V. Wallace
  • Stopping drinking : alcohol, alcoholism, and Song literati / Edward van-Bibber Orr
  • Flouting, flashing and favoritism : an insouciant Buddhist monk bares his midriff before the Confucian court / N. Harry Rothschild
  • Running amok in early Chinese narrative / Eric Henry
  • "Wolves shepherding the people" : cruelty and violence in the Five dynasties / Wang Hongjie
  • A "villain-monk" brought down by a villein-general : a forgotten page in Tang monastic warfare and state-samgha relations / Chen Jinhua
  • Martial monks without borders : was Sinseong a traitor or did he open the gate to a pan-Asian Buddhist realm? / Kelly Carlton.