Key concepts of "literature" / Stephen Owen --
Periodization and major inflection points / Stephen Owen --
The Chinese writing system / Imre Galambos --
Literary media: writing and orality / Christopher M.B. Nugent --
Manuscript culture / Christopher M.B. Nugent --
The relationship of calligraphy and painting to literature / Ronald Egan --
Education and the examination system / Rebecca Doran --
Text and commentary: the early tradition / Michael Puett --
Text and commentary in the Medieval Period / Yu-yu Cheng --
Literary learning: encyclopedias and epitomes / Xiaofei Tian --
Libraries, book catalogues, lost writings / Glen Dudbridge --
Classics / David Schaberg --
Histories / Stephen Durrant --
Masters / Wiebke Denecke --
Collections / Xiaofei Tian --
"Chinese poetry" / Paul Rouzer --
Elite versus popular literature / Wilt L. Idema --
Narrative genres / Sarah M. Allen --
Pre-Tang anthologies and anthologization / David R. Knechtges --
Anthologies in the Tang / Paul W. Kroll --
The Song reception of earlier literature / Stephen Owen --
Textual transmission of earlier literature during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties / Wai-Yee Li --
Defenses of literature/literary thought/poetics / Paul Rouzer --
Concepts of authorship / Wai-Yee Li --
Tradition formation: beginnings to Eastern Han / Stephen Durrant --
Classicisms in Chinese literary culture: six dynasties through Tang / Anna M. Shields --
Moments / Paula Varsano --
Sites I / Jack Chen --
Sites II / Wendy Swartz --
Figures / Wai-Yee Li --
Colonization, Sinicization, and the polyscriptic Northwest / Tamara T. Chin --
Translation / David Boucher --
Shared literary heritage in the Sinographic sphere / Wiebke Denecke, with contributions by Nam Nguyen --
Sino-Korean literature / Sim Kyung-Ho and Peter Kornicki --
Early Sino-Japanese literature / Wiebke Denecke --
Sino-Vietnamese literature / Peter Kornicki.