This article in the founding issue of the International Journal of Chinese Humanities presents a new approach to form and structure of early medieval Chinese writing.

I look at the Chinese translation and commentary of the Mahāvairocana Sūtra, with special reference to the reinterpretation of kalpa. This is a case study in the powerful reverberations that a new interpretation of a text can create, even the interpretation of a single word.

An article on Liu Xiang, political rhetoric, and the topos of the world upside-down turned rightside-up in early China.