contents Research Report 371 A Grand Strategy or a Military Operation? A Reconsideration of vii Brief Valediction the Lingzhou Campaign of 1081 Lina Nie articles Book Reviews 1 Physical Beauty and Inner Virtue: Shinü tu in the Song Dynasty Bo Liu STUDIES JOURNAL OFSONG-YUAN 387 The Capital of the Yuan Dynasty, by Chen Gaohua, translated by Phoebe Poon 59 A Crisis in the Literati State: The Sino-Tangut War and Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt the Qingli-Era Reforms of Fan Zhongyan, 1040–1045 Paul Jakov Smith 392 Writing, Publishing and Reading Local Gazetteers in Imperial China, 1100–1700, by Joseph R. Dennis 139 Domesticated Landscapes of Li Gonglin: A View from the Ruth Mostern Anthropocene De-nin D. Lee 397 Emperor Huizong, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey Yongguang Hu 175 The Official Historiographical Operation of the Song Dynasty Sung Chia-fu 402 The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China, by Ronald Egan 207 Official Recruitment, Imperial Authority, and Bureaucratic Power: Grace S. Fong Political Intrigue in the Case of Yu Fan Chu Ming-kin 408 The Generals of the Yang Family: Four Early Plays, by Wilt L. Idema and Stephen H. West 239 Pu’a’s Boast and Doqolqu’s Death: Historiography of a Regina Llamas Hidden Scandal in the Mongol Conquest of the Jin Christopher P. Atwood 409 Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- to Fourteenth-Century China, by Sukhee Lee 279 Was ‘Da Yuan’ a Chinese Dynasty? Nicolas Tackett Hodong Kim 417 Money in Asia (1200–1900): Small Currencies in Social 307 Princely Qualities and Unexpected Coherence: Rhetoric and and Political Contexts, edited by Jane Kate Leonard and Representation in Juan 117 of the Yuanshi Ulrich Theobald Geoffrey Humble Sui-wai Cheung 339 Negotiating between Mongol Institutions and ‘Han Traditions’: 420 Dialectics of Spontaneity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Su Shi Buddhist Administration in Southeastern China under the Yuan (1037–1101) in Poetry, by Yang Zhiyi Feifei Wang 45 Michael A. Fuller [2015] 433 Corrigendum.