Journal of Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies
Number 66 (January 2018) of the Journal of Chinese Studies has just been published. It contains 7 articles, 1 review article, as well as 10 book reviews and spans 350 pages.

Articles
Poon Ming Kay, "A Study of the Qunshu zhiyao from Japan's Heian Period"
Timothy Wai Keung Chan, "The Romantic Encounter between the Confucian Students and the Fairies: Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao's Adventurous Sojourn in the Yuan-Ming Period"
Jacopo Scarin, "The Chan Immortal and the Tongbai Palace: How Imperial Patronage and Chan Buddhism Shaped the History of a Daoist Temple at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century"
Tsai Chang-lin, "The Separation and Unification of Han and Song: Tang Zhongmian's Stereotyped Writings on Confucian Classics"
Lai Chi Tim, "The Thought and Practice of Zheng Guanying's 'Immortal Way' and 'World Salvation': An Evaluation of His Influence on and Place in the Development of Daoism during the Late Qing and Early Republican Period"
Chan Hok Yin and Tze-ki Hon, "Dialectics between Autonomy and Unification: Zhang Taiyan's Thought on Provincial Self-Rule"
Kenneth Kai-chung Yung, "Democratic Socialism in Hong Kong during the Cold War Era: From Theoretical Exploration to Participation in Local Politics"

Review Article
Christoph Harbsmeier, "On the Scrutability of the Zuozhuan"

Review
Ruth W. Dunnell, "Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan dianzhang. By Bettine Birge"
John Makeham, "Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance. By Ming-huei Lee"
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, "The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power. By Fei-Ling Wang"
Wilt L. Idema, "The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection. By Zhang Yingyu. Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk"
Kishimoto Mio, "Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China. By Johanna S. Ransmeier"
Connie Ho-yee Kwong, "China's Stefan Zweig: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception. By Arnhilt Johanna Hoefle"
David E. Pollard, "A New Literary History of Modern China. Edited by David Der-wei Wang"
Micah Muscolino, "Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao, Peasants, and Local Cadres in Shanxi 1949–1953. By Xiaojia Hou"
Shiroyama Tomoko, "No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945. By Felix Boecking"
Sebastian Veg, "Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China. By Tie Xiao"
Please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/journal/eng/journal.html for further information.

Renditions No. 89 (Spring 2018)
Renditions no. 89 is a general issue with a special section devoted to Bo Shaojun's 薄少君 "One Hundred Poems Lamenting My Husband" 哭夫詩百首 translated by Wilt L. Idema. Other features comprise Feng Zikai's 豐子愷 complex meditation on the meaning and function of time, "The Gradual" 漸, followed by one of Lao She's 老舍 more significant short stories, "A New Hamlet" 新韓穆烈德, together with Lin Wenyue's 林文月 reminiscence of her childhood in the Japanese-controlled section of Shanghai, "Memories of Jiangwan Road" 江灣路憶往. The issue concludes with two stories that are part of post-1979 "new era" fiction, namely G. K. Yuan's "The Martyr" 被遺忘的烈士 and Xie Hong's 謝宏 "Drifters" 自游人.
Please visit: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/ for further information.

Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 97 Number 2), T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 97 Number 2) has been released. There are four articles in this issue:
1. Feifan Wang: "Merge Reversal" as Evidence of Language Contact: A Case Study on the Xia (匣) Initial before High Front Vowels in New Shanghainese
2. Renhai Bian: The Linguistic Mechanism of Chinese Taboo
3. Chen Chen and Shan Wang: Sense Ordering and Example Selection of Polysemous Words in Chinese Learners' Dictionaries
4. Cafe Lingua: A Summary of "The 4th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar"
PDF copies of these articles can be downloaded freely via http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/

Brewing trou-ble in Yixing, Art Museum
The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has published its debut children art book Brewing trou-ble in Yixing. Featuring the renowned collection of Yixing teaware at the Art Museum, CUHK, and beautiful drawings by Hong Kong artist Joey Leung, this parent-child story celebrates the history and philosophy of tea-drinking.

Twenty-First Century Bimonthly (Issue 168, August 2018)
The theme for the current Twenty-First Century Review is "China's Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Prospects." Renowned scholars are invited to contribute their articles to discuss the concept of regional economic cooperation in the "Belt and Road" from the perspectives of macro-history, geopolitics, and infrastructure investment.
1/ "Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia" by Wang Gung-wu
2/ "Is 'Belt and Road Initiative' China's New Geopolitical Strategy?" by Wang Jian-wei
3/ "Hong Kong under 'Belt and Road Initiative' Challenges in Infrastructure Investment in Asia" by Law Cheung-kwok and Fung Ka-yiu
Four research articles are included in this issue.
1/ "The 'Revolution Opium' of Yanan: Mao Zedong's Secret Weapon" by Chen Yung-fa
2/ "The Prelude of the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries in 1931: Reforming Cadres in Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet Area" by Chen Jie
3/ "A Historical Study of the 'Great Leap Forward' in Water Conservancy in Jiangsu Province" by Zhao Xiao-xia
4/ "The Collapse of the Alliance: Sino-North Korean Relations in the Era of Deng Xiaoping, 1977–1992 (Part II)" by Shen Zhi-hua

For the issue's content, please visit the Twenty-First Century Bimonthly website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/.

Cultural Revolution : Recollections, Reconstructions, and Reflections
Published in July 2018 before the HK Book Fair, this book is a collection of the essays in the two seminars on Cultural Revolution co-organised by Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture and Universities Service Centre for China Studies in January 2017. Most of the authors are professional researchers of Cultural Revolution at home and abroad. Many of them are even survivors of the historical incident. They aim to record the process with evidences, so as to examine the system, human nature, and our culture, with the hope of shedding light on the future with the flames of the past.