Shunqing CAO The Legitimacy of Comparative Literaturc and the Variation Studies of Comparative Literature INVITED ARTICLES Wollgang K UBIN Castles, Churches. Common Halls: How to Present Chinese Literature Abroad Eugene C. EOYANG Macintosh Apples and Mandarin Oranges: Discourse Functions and Dysfunctions in Literary Comparison Shaobo XIE Why Cultural Translation? Thinking towards a Genuine Universalism Yi ZHENG Poetics of Crisis and Historical Redirection: Guo Moruo's Modern Nirvana VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF GENDER Xin ZHANG Exile of the Homosexual "Deviant" in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour Wenhui HONG Myth of Hegemonic Masculinity: A Study of Donnie Yen's Movie Images Lingling MIAO A Mirror of Their Own-Representation of the Female Body in Sex and the City COMPARATIVE STUDIES & CULTURAL CRITIQUE Xinxin JIANG and Zhan YE On the Conflict of Memories between Father and Son in Juneteenth Ying YE Pictorial Portrayal of Black Fducation in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,1866 Zheng MA The Spread and Change of Islamic Sufi in the Modern Western Context Ying LIU A Comparative Analysis of "自由主义" and Liberalism TEACHING & CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Lian DUAN Iconology in Teaching Chinese Art and Its Influence NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS