Introduction / Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Shih-shan Susan Huang -- Part I. Making art in funeral and ritual contexts -- Modular design of tombs in Song and Jin North China / Fei Deng -- Visualizing ritual in Southern Song Buddhist painting / Phillip E. Bloom -- Part II. tii: Setting a scene -- Dreams, spirits, and romantic encounters in Jin and Yuan theatrical pictures / Fan Jeremy Zhang -- The ten views of West Lake / Xiaolin Duan -- Part III. Appreciating the written words -- A forgery and the pursuit of the authentic Wang Xizhi / Hui-Wen Lu -- Zhu Xi's colophons on handwritten documents / Patricia Buckley Ebrey -- Part IV. Cross-cultural transfers -- Paintings of birds by Basins / Jie Liu -- Chinese objects recovered from Sutra Mounds in Japan, 1000-1300 / Yiwen Li.