Contents: "Ik" zei de gek, "I" Mencius, "I" Laozi, "Zhuang Zhou" Zhuangzi / B.J. Mansvelt Beck -- The development of pre-Qin conceptual terms and their incorporation into Xunzi's thought / M. Sato -- Interpreting written riddles : a typical Chinese way of divination / T. Lippiello -- The poem Laojun bianhua wuji jing : introduction, summary, text and translation / A. Dudink -- Linked verse and linked faiths : an inquiry into the social circle of an eminent Tang dynasty Taoist master / J. de Meyer -- The rise of the Guanyu cult : the Taoist connection / B.J. ter Haar -- Guanyin's acolytes / W.L. Idema -- The forgotten tears of the Lord of Longyang : late Ming stories of male prostitution and connoisseurship / G. Vitiello -- Linked faiths, divergent paths? Some remarks on Taoism and medicine in late Ming and early Qing China / P.M. Engelfriet -- Christian social action in late Ming times : Wang Zheng and his "humanitarian society" / E. Zürcher -- The classification of sciences and the Jesuit mission in late Ming China / N. Standaert -- A host of princes / E. Uitzinger -- Ritual text and performance in the marionette theatre of southern Fujian and Taiwan / R. Ruizendaal.