Preface
1 Anomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective
Part One. The Texts and Their World
2 Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts
3. Justifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts
4. The Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why
Part Two. Interpretive Perspectives
5 The Description and Narration of Anomaly: Cosmographic Poetics
6 Modes of Anomaly: Cosmographic Logic
7 Strange Persuasions: Cosmographic Rhetoric
8 Reciprocity across Boundaries: Cosmographic Ethics
Postscript
Appendix
List of Works Cited
List of Citations of Primary Texts
Index