Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Intertextuality and Interpretation 1
5. 2. The Mythological Dictionary of Stone 35
6. 3. Stone and Jade: From the Fictitious to the Morally Prescribed 95
7. 4. The Story of Stone: The Problematic of Contradiction and Constraint 173
8. 5. The Paradox of Desire and Emptiness: The Stone Monkey Intertextualized 221
9. 6. The Inscribed Stone Tablet 251
10. Conclusion 269
11. Notes 279
12. Bibliography 319
13. Index 333