Paul W. Kroll, Ph.D. (1976, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely on medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, and is the author of A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill, 2014; rev. ed. 2017).Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAlbert Hoffstädt: A TributeThe Editors1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?Alexander Lubotsky2 India’s Past ReconsideredJohannes Bronkhorst3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s TeachingsJonathan A.Silk4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical YugasVincent Eltschinger5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical TerritoryRemco Breuker6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa JapanMartin J.Heijdra7 Overcoming DistanceRichard Bowring8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early ChinaMartin Kern9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and PhilosophyJan De Meyer10 On Some Verses of Li BoPaul W.Kroll11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the CountrysideDavid R.Knechtges12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary CreationWendy Swartz13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval ChinaStephen F.Teiser14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880)Beata Grant15 Chinese Dualism RevisitedJohn Lagerwey16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese WorldviewsRobert Ford Campany17 Self-Portrait of a NarcissistPierre-Étienne Will18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of SolesRobert E.Hegel19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern ZajuWilt L.Idema20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese PoetryMaghiel van Crevel21 Horatius SinensisMichael Lackner22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity Christoph HarbsmeierIndex

Paul W. Kroll, Ph.D. (1976, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely on medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, and is the author of A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill, 2014; rev. ed. 2017).Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAlbert Hoffstädt: A TributeThe Editors1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?Alexander Lubotsky2 India’s Past ReconsideredJohannes Bronkhorst3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s TeachingsJonathan A.Silk4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical YugasVincent Eltschinger5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical TerritoryRemco Breuker6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa JapanMartin J.Heijdra7 Overcoming DistanceRichard Bowring8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early ChinaMartin Kern9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and PhilosophyJan De Meyer10 On Some Verses of Li BoPaul W.Kroll11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the CountrysideDavid R.Knechtges12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary CreationWendy Swartz13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval ChinaStephen F.Teiser14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880)Beata Grant15 Chinese Dualism RevisitedJohn Lagerwey16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese WorldviewsRobert Ford Campany17 Self-Portrait of a NarcissistPierre-Étienne Will18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of SolesRobert E.Hegel19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern ZajuWilt L.Idema20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese PoetryMaghiel van Crevel21 Horatius SinensisMichael Lackner22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity Christoph HarbsmeierIndex