This volume, first published in 2000, takes 'East and West: comparative perspectives' as its central theme.

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editor's introduction: East and West - the twain shall meet: comparative literature crossing the waters; A note on the SOAS conference on New Perspectives in Comparative Literature Javed Majeed; Part I. East and West: Comparative Perspectives: 1. Afloat on the sea of stories: world tales, English literature, and geopolitical aesthetics Peter Caracciolo; 2. Classics and the comparison of adjacent literatures: some Pakistani perspectives Christopher Shackle; 3. Performance literature: the traditional Japanese theatre as model C. Andre Gerstle; 4. 'Am I in that name?' Women's writing as cultural translation in early modern China Ming-Bao Yue; 5. Hu Shih and John Dewey: 'scientific method' in the May 4th era - China 1921 Han-Liang Chang; 6. stabat mater: reflections on a theme in German-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab poetry Stefan Sperl; Part II. Literature and Translation: 7. English voices for Hindi verses? Issues in translating pre-colonial poetry Rupert Snell; 8. 'The Perplexity of Hercules Hariya'. A story translated from the Hindi by Robert A. Hueckstedt, with an introduction on modern Hindi fiction Manohar Shyam Joshi; 9. 'Divan of Tamarit' translated from the Spanish by Catherine Jonet, third equal prize of the BCLA/BCL translation competition Federico García Lorca; 10. 'Of Cabbages and Queens' translated from the Gaelic by herself with an introduction by Bernard O'Donoghue, first equal prize Celia De Freíne; 11. Diana's Tree with a prologue by Octavio Paz, translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi, first equal prize Alejandra Pizarnik; 12. Autumn Reverie, translated by Bayliss, Edwards, Hermans, and Ronnau, special prize for Dutch Frank Martinus Arion; Part III. Essay Reviews: On Alain Grosrichard, The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East Gregory Blue; On C. A. Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India 1780¿1850 Peter Robb; On The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. v, Historiography, ed. Robin W. Winks Trevor O. Lloyd; Books and periodicals received James Thraves; Select bibliography of Chinese-Western comparative literature studies, 1970¿2000 compiled by Han-lian Chang, Yiu-man Ma and Hamilton Min-tsang Yang.