No. 9 (Spring 1978)
| Contents (*Asterisks denote items with Chinese text) | |
| Articles | |
| 5 | CHENG TE-K'UN: Chinese Nature Painting |
| 30 | C.T. HSIA: The Chinese Sense of Humor |
| 85 | CH'IEN CHUNG-SHU: Tragedy in Old Chinese Drama |
| 92 | PERNG CHING-HSI: Language as Discovery: An Aspect of Yüan Drama |
| Essays | |
| 47 | T.C. LAI: Choice Morsels — Some Food for Thought from Yüan Mei and Li Yü* |
| 81 | VICTOR H. MAIR: Toadyism — A Study in Contrasts I T'AO TSUNG-I: Notes Made While Resting from Farm Work* II TSUNG CH'EN: Letter in Reply to Liu I-chang* |
| Humor | |
| 37 | GEORGE KAO: From A Thesaurus of Chinese Laughs |
| 43 | LIANG SHIH-CH'IU: The Fine Art of Reviling* (William B. Pettus) |
| Drama | |
| 103 | CHI CHUN-HSIANG: The Revenge of the Orphan of Chao (Pi-twan H. Wang) |
| Fiction | |
| 65 | YÜ TA-FU: Smoke Shadows (Bonnie S. McDougall) |
| Poetry | |
| 62 | More Translations by John Turner |
| 71 | HUANG YUNG-WU: Four Symbolic Plants in Chinese Poetry (Wong Wai-leung) |
| Art | |
| 7 | Visit at Night, by Shen Chou |
| 8 | Home by the Water, by Ch'ien Ku |
| 135 | Calligraphy by Mi Fu |
| Briefs A Singular Gift — 36, Orphan Chao in the West — 102, Never Quite Got It — 131, Books Received — 132. | |
| Editor's Page 4 Notes on Contributors 133 Chinese Texts 135 | |