Editors' Preface

PART ONE: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

Introduction to Part One

Wimal Dissanayake

Symbolic Expressions and the Self

Arthur C. Danto

PART TWO: SELF AS IMAGE IN CHINESE THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Two

Roger T. Ames

Figures of Identity: Topoi and the Gendered Subject in Chinese Art

Stephen J. Goldberg

Construction and Insertion of the Self in Song and Yuan Painting

John Hay

Stylization and Invention: The Burden of Self-Expression in the Scholars

Martin W. Huang

Unseen Lives: The Emotions of Everyday Existence Mirrored in Chinese Popular Poetry of the Mid-Seventeenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Mark Elvin

The Self in Transition: Moral Dilemma in Modern Chinese Drama

Kwok-kan Tam

Terry Siu-han Yip

PART THREE: SELF AS IMAGE IN INDIAN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Three

Wimal Dissanayake

Self as Image in the Nature Poetry of Kalidasa and Du Fu

Wimal Dissanayke

Late Colonial and Postcolonial Selves in Hindu and Marathi Poetry

Vinay Dharwadker

Communal Self and Cultural Imagery: The Katha Performance Tradition in South India

Gayathri Rajapur Kassebaum

Carving a Self: Feminist Consciousness, the Family, and the Socialization Process: A Study of Ashapurna Devi's Trilogy

Shivani Banerjee Chakravorty

Satyajit Ray's Secret Guide to Exquisite Murder: Creativity, Social Criticism, and the Partitioning of the Self

Ashis Nandy

PART FOUR: SELF AS IMAGE IN JAPANESE THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Four

Thomas P. Kasulis

``Impersonality'' in Basho: Neo-Confucianism and Japanese Poetry

Arthur H. Thornhill III

Zen and Artistry

Thomas P. Kasulis

Perceptions of Self in Modern Japanese Literature: Two Adaptations of Classical Chinese Historiography

Nobuko Miyama Ochner

Analog, Figure, Avatar: Exploration of the Self in Modern Japanese Fiction

Lucy Lower

The Persistence of Self as Body and Personality in Japanese Buddhist Art

Willa Jane Tanabe

Art and the Construction of Self and Subject in Japan

Mara Miller

List of Contributors

Index