Writing-mediated cross-border communication face-to-face: from Sinitic brush-talk to pen-assisted conversation / David C. S. Li, Reijiro Aoyama, and Tak-sum Wong -- East Asian brush-talk literature: introduction and proposed classification / Yong Wang -- Brush-talk involving traveling literati and boat drifters in East Asia. Brush conversation between maritime officials and foreign seafarers in drifting records in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century East Asia / Akira Matsuura and Reijiro Aoyma -- Senzaimaru's maiden voyage to Shanghai in 1862: brush conversation between Japanese travelers and people they encountered in Qing China / David C. S. Li and Reijiro Aoyama -- Identity verification and negotiation through Sinitic brush-talk in Ming China and Japan: drifting accounts by Ch'oe Pu (1488) and Yi Chi-hang (1696-1697) / Kyoung-jin Hur -- A study of salient linguistic features of two Ryukyuan brush conversations in Sinitic, 1611 and 1803 / Tak-sum Wong -- Brush-talk involving diplomatic envoys in East Asia. Sinitic brush-talk between Vietnam and China in the eighteenth century: a study of Lê Quý Đôn's Mission to Qing China (1758-1762) / Tuá̂n Cường Nguyẽ̂n and Thị Tuyé̂t Nguyẽ̂n -- Lingua-cultural characteristics of brush-talk: insights from Ōkōchi documents / Baoping Wang -- The charm and pitfalls of Sinitic brush-talk: a study of brush conversation records between Miyajima Seiichirō and the First Legation staff of late Qing China in Japan (1870s-1880s) / Yuzhen Liu -- Japanese-Korean brush-talk during the early Edo Period, 1603-1867 / Jea-hyoun Koo and Ian Joo -- Brush-talk between Chosŏn envoys and Tokugawa literati: contesting cultural superiority and 'central efflorescence', 1711-1811 / Jin-youp Jang -- Script-specific communication in Sinitic: significance for historical pragmatics, cultural anthropology, and East Asian studies. Sociocultural functions of Chinese characters and writing: transnational brush-talk encounters in mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century East Asia / Reijiro Aoyama -- Discussion paper / Rebekah Clements.