Part I South and Southeast Asia -- Selected Periods and Dates -- Edicts of the Indian Mauryan Emperor Ashoka -- "The Great Ape Jataka" and "Ruru-Jataka": Selections from the Jataka -- "The Country of Khotan and the Image Procession" and "The Image Procession and the Charitable Hopital": Selections from A Record of the Buddhist Countries / Fa-Hsien [Faxian] -- "Varaha, the Boar," "Brahma, Vishnu and the Linga of Siva," "Mt Govardhana," "The Origin of the Goddess from the Gods," and "The Death of Mahisha, the Buffalo Demon": Selections from Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas -- Playful Ambiguity and Political Authority at the Large Relief at Mamallapuram / Padma Kaimal -- Excerpts from Borobudur / Louis Frederic -- Reading Love Imagery on the Indian Temple / Vidya Dehejia -- Excerpts from Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship / Eleanor Mannikka -- "Akbar Riding the Elephant Havai" and "Akbar Supervising the Construction of Fatehpur Sikri," from The Akbar Nama of Abul Fazl -- Excerpts from The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India -- Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture / Michael Brand

Timeless Symbols: Royal Portraits from Rajasthan 17th-19th Centuries / Vishakha Desai -- Indian Images Collected / Richard Davis -- Image as Presence / Janet Gyatso -- Excerpts from Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon / Sandra Cate -- The Artist as Charismatic Individual: Raja Ravi Varma / Partha Mitter -- The "East"West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier / Vikramaditya Prakash -- Skyscraper Competition in Asia: New City Images and New City Forms / Larry R. Ford -- Part II East Asia: Selected Periods and Dates -- The Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality / Wu Hung -- Shang and Zhou Bronze Inscriptions -- A Magic Army for the Emperor / Lothar Ledderose -- The Tigress / Arya Shura -- The Six Laws of Xie He -- The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-chih ([Wang Xizhi], 303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in the Seventh Century / Eugene Y. Wang -- Ise Jingu / William H. Coaldrake -- Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image -- Of Nature and Art: Monumental Landscape / Wen C. Fong -- Guo Xi's Writings on Landscape Painting -- Jocho's Statue of Amida at the Byodo-in and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan / Samuel C. Morse -- "The Oak Tree," from The Tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century / John M. Rosenfield -- Symbolic Virtue and Political Legitimation: Tea and Politics in the Momoyama Period / Kendall H. Brown

-- Practices of Vision / Craig Clunas -- Excerpts from Chinese Imperial City Planning / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Letters from European Travelers about the Forbidden City: "A Jesuit in Beijing: Louis Lecomte" and "An English Ambassador in Beijing: Aeneas Anderson" -- The Conventional Success of Chen Shu [Chen Shu] / Marsha Weidner -- Artistic Tradition and the Depiction of Reality: True-View Landscape Painting of the Chosen Dynasty / Yi Song-mi -- The Meaning of Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture / Timon Screech -- The Kizaemon Tea-bowl / Soetsu Yanagi -- Excerpts from Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung / Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong] -- Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution / Robert Benewick -- Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Independant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s / Alexandra Munroe -- Pseudo-languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay / Simon Leung -- Believing Is Seeing: Transforming Orientalism and the Occidental Gaze / John Kuo Wei Tchen.