2023 No.4
New Publications
  • Journal of Chinese Studies no.77 (July 2023)
  • Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 199 (October 2023)
  • Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 200 (December 2023)
Journal of Chinese Studies no.77 (July 2023)
 


This issue spans 210 pages, including four academic articles and six book reviews.

Academic Articles
Ren Jianmin. The Establishment and Adjustment of Native Chieftain System in Lipu County of Guangxi under the “Gutian Model” in the Late Ming Dynasty
Ng Chi Lim. A Study of Qian Qianyi’s “Lü Liuhou Zi Shuo”
Chou Ying Ching. Revisiting the Origins of Sino-French Contact and Its Potential Challenge to the Qing Government’s Canton System.
Hon Tze-ki, Chan Hok-yin. The Development of Sung Wong Toi as a Cultural Landscape and a Place of Memory in Hong Kong.

Book Reviews
De Weerdt, Hilde. Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China: Family, State, and Native Place. By Cong Ellen Zhang.
Varsano, Paula. Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse. By Lucas Bender.
Despeux, Catherine. Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China. By Yan Liu.
von Falkenhausen, Lothar. The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. By Brian Lander.
Rhoads, Edward. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War. By Zhuqing Li.
Schluessel, Eric. The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China. By Guangtian Ha.

For more details, please visit the Institute of Chinese Studies website:
https://www.ics.cuhk.edu.hk/en/publication/periodicals/ics-journal

Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 199 (October 2023)



The Twenty-first Century Review” presents the topic “Reflections on Reform and Revolution,” which features the second lecture of “The Fourth Chen Kewen Lecture on Modern Chinese History” at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, entitled “Social Reform and Social Revolution: The Choices between the Kuomintang-Communist Struggle in Twentieth-century China,” in order to review and reconsider the century-long debate between reform and revolution with readers.

The Twenty-First Century Review
Reflections on Reform and Revolution
Yang Tian-shi, Huang Ko-wu, Wang Qi-sheng. Social Reform and Social Revolution: The Choices between the Kuomintang-Communist Struggle in Twentieth-century China.

Research Articles
Gong Chen. Recognition and Embarrassment in the Late Years of Zhang Yuan-ji.
Lin Pan. New China’s Absorption of the Old Intellectual Elites: Taking Jiang Wei-qiao as an Example.
Cho Chi-hang. A Preliminary Exploration of the Dissemination of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Japan.

Research Notes
Yang Tian-shi. The Merits and Shortcomings of Chiang Kai-shek.

View on the World
Lu Fang. “Poetry of Heathens”: The Indigenization of Christianity and the Mixture of Eastern and Western Aesthetics.

Discourses and Peripatetic Notes
Tong Shiu-sing. J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physics, the Atomic Bomb, and Life.

Scholar’s Reminiscences
Peng Guo-xiang. The Relationship between Tang Jun-yi and Yu Ying-shih: A Historical Reconstruction and Some Remarks. (Part II)

Book Reviews
Wu Guo. “Hero Is But an Ordinary Man”: A Review on Chak Chi-shing, Hu Shi in the Eyes of Twentieth-century Neo-Confucians.
Qin Hui. Kang Sheng’s “Unpredictable” Personality and the Unpredictable Political System: A Review on Yu Ru-xin, ed., The Chronology of Kang Sheng: The Life of a Communist (1898–1975).

For more details, please visit the Twenty-First Century Bimonthly website:
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/en/issues/c199.html

Twenty-First Century
Bimonthly, Issue 200 
(December 2023)



This year marks the 45th anniversary of China’s reform and opening up. To sum up the achievements and deepen the direction of reform in order to achieve new breakthroughs, the considerations of people concerning China’s future development is urgently needed. In this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review,” we invited three experts and scholars to discuss the topic of “Reform and Opening Up in China: Retrospect and Reflections,” in the hope of casting a brick to attract jade.

The Twenty-First Century Review
Reform and Opening Up in China: Retrospect and Reflections
Zhu Jia-ming. A Note about My Rethinking of the Forty-five Years of China’s Economic Reform.
Yao Yang. From Reform and Opening Up to the New Era: What Is Happening in China?
He Bao-gang. Looking at China’s Political Reform from the Perspective of “Internal and External Integration”

Research Articles
Gao Zi-wen. Nationalism, Modernism, and Discourse Construction: The Origins and Evolution of the Concept of “Huaju” (Spoken Drama).
Yiching Wu. What Is “Cultural Revolution”? — The Origins and Coming of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered. (Part I)
Yan Fei, Wu Rui. Central Policy Rifts and Local Factionalism: The 1967 Power Seizure Movement in Guangzhou.
Zhang Jing-ping, Chen Zhi-wei. The Rise of the Compilation of Water Conservancy Records in Contemporary China: Taking the Hexi Corridor as an Example.

View on the World
Wang Huan. Qigong Painting, Spiritual Healing, and the Revolution of Body.

Research Notes
Chow Po-chung. Do We Still Have Reasons to Be a Liberal?

Book Reviews
Tian Shao-yin. Feelings of Sadness Are Always Nameless: A Review on Vladislav M. Zubok, Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union.
Qu Sheng. The Cultural Turn in Cold War Studies: A Review on Zhai Tao, Cultural Cold War and Identity Shaping: A Study of American Propaganda to Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia (1949–1965).

For more details, please visit the Twenty-First Century Bimonthly website:
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/en/issues/c200.html
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Event Report: ICS Jao Tsung-I Visiting Professor Public Lecture 2023
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