INVITED ARTICLES Timothy C. WONG Orality in Performance: The Art of Classical Xiaoshuo Eduardo PAGAN The Promises and Challenges of Teaching History through Television GLOBALIZATION AND CHINESENESS David PICKUS Globalization and Chengdu: A Response to Eduardo Pagan Louis Liuxi MENG Idea-scape (yifing) : Understanding Imagery in the Chinese Poetic Tradition Lian DUAN Anxiety of Glocalization: Contemporary Chinese Art Responding to Western Influence COMPARATIVE STUDIES Xinjun ZHANG, Qizhi LIU Aestheticization of Illness in A Dream of The Red Mansions Tanfeng ZHANG, Linxin JIANG Bing Xin Studies in the English Speaking World: A Critical Survey Danping SUN The Pursuit of "A Room of Her Own" --Virginia Woolf's Search for Female Subjectivity in Her Individual Space in The Hours Jiamin QI Spatial Structures in Constructing Progressive Black Masculinities in The Men of Brewster Place LITERARE AND SOCIETY Lin XIANG The Intellectual as a Free and Rational Man: On Mills' The Sociological Imagination Xiaoli FANG The World as a Community: The Communal Voice in The Temple of My Familiar Yulong ZHU A Motivation Psychoanalysis of Buck's Self-transformation in The Call of the Wild