The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware

The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware (in Chinese and English) is edited by Lai Suk Yee and Terese Tse Bartholomew.

This catalogue showcases the Yixing zisha stoneware collection donated by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation to the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The 168 items of zisha stoneware include various types of teapots, archaistic vessels, scholar's studio objects and naturalistic sculpture, dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The majority are antique-style zisha from the early twentieth century. The catalogue features full-colour illustrations with detailed bilingual entries. Each of the authors has also contributed a thematic article. The first article introduces the significance of the collection in demonstrating the signature characteristics of the "literati artistic approach" to, and the "uncertainty of authentication" of, zisha stoneware from the Ming dynasty to the present day. The other article explores the cultural significance of, and the various art dealers, collectors and potters participating in, the Shanghai antique-style zisha industry during the early twentieth century.

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The Art and Culture of Yixing Zisha Stoneware

The Art and Culture of Yixing Zisha Stoneware (in Chinese and English) is edited by Lai Suk Yee and Terese Tse Bartholomew.

This booklet is published to accompany the exhibition "The Art and Culture of Yixing Zisha Stoneware" co-organised by the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware and the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Combining the treasures of these two museums, the exhibition demonstrates and explores the artistic achievements and development of Yixing zisha stoneware, as well as its cultural significance and social impact. The exhibits include 168 items from the Bei Shan Tang Collection of the Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and 50 items from the K.S. Lo Collection of the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, totalling 218 items. The booklet, with 26 selected exhibits printed in full colour, presents the two main themes. The first—The Culture and Connoisseurship of the Yixing Teapot—is divided into seven parts: The Story of the Gongchun Teapot; Yixing Ware Dominates the Collecting Scene; Significance and Influence of Mansheng Teapots; Mengchen Teapots and Gongfu Tea; Elegant Works from the Late Qing Dynasty to Early Republican Era; The Modern Tradition; and Export Yixing Stoneware and Its Influence. The second theme centres on the uses of Yixing stoneware beyond tea culture, with a special focus on archaistic vessels, elegant objects and naturalistic sculptures for the scholar's studio.

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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre

Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 36 Number 1) has been released. There are three articles in this issue:

1. Richard S Kayne: "Once and Twice"
2. Wei-Wen Roger Liao: "Once Upon an Invisible TIME: On Frequentative Phrases in Chinese"
3. Pei-Jung Kuo: "The Components of Sideward Movement in the Verb Copying Construction in Mandarin Chinese"

This issue is the first open-access issue distributed by De Gruyter Open. PDF copies of these articles can be downloaded for free from http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/scl.

Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture

21^st Century Bimonthly (Issue 148, April 2015): The topic for the current Twenty-First Century Review is "Worries on the Rule of Law in China", in which Professor David Zhou contributes his article "Paradox and Evolution: The Rule of Law in Mainland China since 1949".

21^st Century Bimonthly (Issue 149, June 2015): The Topic for the current Twenty-First Century Review is Sociological Thoughts on China's Great Transformation, in which Professor Guo Yu-hua contributed his article "The Communist Civilization and Its Transformation: The Outline for Sociology of Transformation" that explores the research value of the civilization of communism and its transformation from the perspective of transformative sociology.

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

CY Tung and China Ocean Shipping, Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture

CY Tung and China Ocean Shipping, jointly published by the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture and Chung Wah Book Co., came off the press in May 2015. This book is the second publication of the Centre's research project Commerce, Culture, and Community: A Biographical Series, and was written by the Centre's honorary research fellow Professor Cheng Hwei Shing.

Based on his work years ago editing CY Tung's million-word diary, Professor Cheng set out on this project by sorting out the voluminous documents kept by Tung during his lifetime as supplied by his descendants, and looking at the information on Tung held in the archive libraries of various institutions. On top of that, Professor Cheng conducted personal interviews with Tung's family, relatives and good friends, to compile this comprehensive and informative biography of CY Tung.

Not only is Tung revealed as a successful businessman in this book, it is also shown how he was  associated with China's national power base and with the development of the modern ocean shipping industry. The book's title, CY Tung and China Ocean Shipping, reflects how, on reading this account of Tung's legendary life, readers will get an appreciation of how older-generation entrepreneurs like Tung contributed to the development of the modern ocean shipping business and played a role in its remarkable growth from nothing to an industry of economic significance.

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Studies in Zhuangzi and Xunzi, D.C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts

The 36^th title of The CHANT Series, Studies in Zhuangzi and Xunzi, authored by Professor Ho Che Wah, was published by the D. C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts in May 2015. Most of the previous scholars believed that there was a big difference between the philosophies of Xunzi and Zhuangzi as they were the representative of Confucianism and Daoism respectively during the Warring States period. Furthermore, critical comments on Zhuangzi's ideas were found in the Xunzi, which have created a gap between them. In this book, through examining the usage of similar words that appeared in the Xunzi and the Zhuangzi, the author opines that there is a relationship between the two philosophers. Abundant evidences have proved that Xunzi frequently used Zhuangzi's ideas. This contrasts with the traditional view that Xunzi disapproved of Zhuangzi.

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Collected Exegeses on the Variants in Classical Commentaries, D.C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts

The 37^th title of The CHANT Series, Collected Exegeses on the Variants in Classical Commentaries, coauthored by Professor Ho Che Wah and Dr Lam Lai Ling, was published by the D. C. Lau Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts in June 2015. The authors have collected comments of scholars including Mao gong, Zheng Xuan, Gao You, Wang Yi, pseudo-Kong Anguo, Wei Zhao, Wang Su, Wang Bi, Pei Yin, Zhang Zhan, Lu Bian, Guo Xiang, Cheng Xuanying, Yang Liang, Sima Zhen, Zhang Shoujie, Yan Shigu. By examining the collected material, in the light of transmitted and excavated texts, the authors analyze the relationship between annotations and variants in order to have a better understanding of the method employed by commentators since the Han dynasty. In addition, through further analysis, the authors are able to know to what extent the commentators had used variants in their annotations.

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Renditions (Spring 2015), Research Centre for Translation

Renditions no. 83 is a general issue with a special section on Feng Menglong's 馮夢龍 Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms 東周列國志. Other features comprise "The Xishan Treatise on the Aesthetics of Qin Music" 谿山琴況 by Xu Shangying 徐上瀛, seven poems of the Qing-dynasty poet Luo Qilan 駱綺蘭, and "The Biography of Zhang Tang, from the Book of Han" 漢書‧張湯傳 by Ban Gu 班固.

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Other articles for publication

Chan Kwun Nam, Art Museum
〈萬象神采的近現代中國畫壇及高奇峰《孔雀》〉，《典藏‧古美術》，總第272期（2015年5月），頁174–179。

Chi Jo-hsin, Art Museum
〈社會生活史與鑑玉：以玉駱駝與哪吒降龍珮為例〉，《喜聞過齋圖錄》（書名暫訂）

Liu Yan, Art Museum
"Illuminating Han society, recent archaeological discoveries in the mid-Yangzi region," in Interdisciplinary in Archaeology, Oxford: British Archaeological Report, forthcoming, 2015.
Yan Liu and Jing Zhang, Chinese translation, Jessica Rawson. "Ordering the Exotic: Ritual Practices in the Late Western and Early Eastern Zhou", Early China vol.2, Beijing: Wenwu Chubanshe, forthcoming, 2015.

Xu Xiaodong, Art Museum
〈扳指的前世今生〉，《國學新視野》2015年6月夏季號，總第18期，頁151–155,7。