CONTENTS
Preface. Paolo Santangelo. Chinese Printed Illustrations: Additional Notes on Materiality and on Material Authors of the Pipa ji and Xixiang ji Editions of the Ming Dynasty / Michela Bussotti. - Historicizing Ming-Ryukyu Relations: The Politics of Scholarship / Ying-Kit Chan. - From a Singing Bird to a Fighting Bug: Cricket-Fight and the Cultural Rhetorics in Late Imperial China / Hsiung Ping-Chen. - Essay on Giuseppe Maria Kuo’s Journal / Michele Fatica and Maria Letizia Pizzuti. - Intellectual or Emotional Knowledge? Values and Meanings of the Chinese Garden in the Ming Period / Maurizio Paolillo. - Liaozhai zhiyi and Zibuyu, Two Precious Qing Sources on Mentality and Imagery / Paolo Santangelo. - Karmic Retribution and Moral Didacticism in Erotic Fiction from the Late Ming and Early Qing / Wu Cuncun and Stevenson Mark. - Tianfang Dianli: A Chinese Perspective on Islamic Law and its Legal Reasoning / Tontini Roberta. - Praising and Blame: Evaluating Appellations in Song-Ming Historical Writings / Lee Cheuk Yin. - Emotions and Narrative: Depictions of Love in the Yuan Novella Jiao Hong ji and its Abridged Version in the Ming Anthology Qingshi leilüe / Barbara Bisetto. - Emotions in chengyu and other set phrases / Erhard Rosner.

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
Notes on Variolation in Japan. Shutō hitsujun ben 種痘必順辨 (Variolation Ensures Gentle Smallpox, 1795) by Ogata Shunsaku 緒方春朔" / Paolo Villani - Korean Reaction to Matteo Ricci and Christianity: A Case of “Defensive Fundamentalism”? / Maurizio Riotto.

BOOK REVIEWS
Struve Lynn, “Dreaming and Self-search during the Ming Collapse: The Xue Xiemeng Biji, 1642-1646”, T’oung Pao 93, 2007, pp. 159-192, and Struve Lynn, “Self-Struggles of a Martyr: Memories, Dreams, and Obsessions in the Extant Diary of Huang Chuyao”, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 69, 2, 2009, pp. 343-394 / Paolo Santangelo. - Yu Anthony, Comparative Journeys. Essays on Literature and Religion East and West, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 408 / Paolo Santangelo.