Journal of Chinese Studies no. 81 (July 2025)

This issue comprises four academic articles, one review article, and four book reviews.

Academic Articles
Hsu Tzu-pin: The Application of Ritual and Writing Rules: Diverse Interpretations of “Pibianfusuji” and a Strategy for Reconciliation
Ma Tao: A Study of the Composition History of Wang Yinzhi’s Taisui kao
Lou Tingjian: Exploring the Interpretive Path of Ma Yifu’s Commentary on Laozi and Its Confucian Position
Yizhuo Li: Goddess Jinhua: A Divine Leader of Demons and Religious Allusions in a Qing Drama

Review Article
Bony Schachter: Reading Patrice Fava’s Un taoïste n’a pas d’ombre: Mémoires d’un ethnologue en Chine

Book Reviews
Roderich Ptak: Discovered but Forgotten: The Maldives in Chinese History, c. 1100–1620. By Bin Yang
Ole Bruun: Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China. By Tristan G. Brown
Barend J. ter Haar: The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850–1880. By Huan Jin
Christoph Harbsmeier: Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism. By Shadi Bartsch

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Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 210 (August 2025)

The Twenty-First Century Review
Reconsidering the “Three Rural Issues” in China
Wang Chun-guang: The State Positioning of “Three Rural Issues” and the Practice of Rural Revitalization
Tian Yi-peng: New Challenges to the “Three Rural Issues” in the Context of Rural Depopulation
Zhao De-yu: The Prospect of Rural Collective Economy under the Strategy of Rural Revitalization

Research Articles
Shen Zhi-hua: The Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Korean War, and the Dilemma of the Chinese Communist Party’s Forceful Attack on Taiwan (Part II)
Bayinna: People’s China: Photography and New China’s Propaganda towards Japan (1953–1965)
Xiao Xiong: The National Will and Scientific Orientation: The Spreading and Transmutation of New Acupuncture since the Founding of New China

View on the World
Zhang Li-fang: From Commodity to Gift: Ibrahim Mahama’s Art and Institutional Building in Tamale

Glamour of Scholars
Chen Fong-ching: C N Yang and His World—Strife, Triumph, Conflict, and Unification

Book Reviews
Liu Shi-gu: Between Live and Death: A Review on Chen Yixin, When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine
Zhou Jun: To Where Is the Steel Flowing? A Review on Huang Daoxuan, Flowing Steel: Operating Systems of the Chinese Communist Party during Wartime, 1937–1945

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Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 211 (October 2025)

In October 2025, our journal celebrates the milestone of its 35th anniversary. Maintaining our founding vision and sustaining this intellectual and cultural space amid a rapidly changing environment remains our enduring mission. This commemorative issue, “In Celebration of the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Twenty-First Century”, features contributions from several members of the editorial board, who share their insights on diverse public issues with our readers.

In Celebration of the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of Twenty-First Century
King Y. C. Ambrose: A Path to Knowledge beyond Science: The Challenging Task for the Chinese Philosophy
Qin Hui: God Plays Dice: Philosophical Thoughts on Natural Evolution and Historical Progress
Ren Jian-tao: “Western Civilization”: A Deconstructive Inquiry
Zhao Ding-xin: “Thin Isomorphism” and “Thick Isomorphism”: The Challenges of China’s Further Reforms
Chow Po-chung: Our Homeland Still Remains

Research Articles
Fu Jia-ning: Anarchists’ Imagination of the “New Woman”: The Chinese Interpretation of Emma Goldman’s Image in the Early Twentieth Century
Li Li-jun, Bian Dong-lei: The “Happiness” Discourse and National Imagination of “4th April Children’s Day” in Republic-Era Newspapers
Zhu Tao: Urban Governance and Population Mobility in the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Shanghai’s Dockworkers

View on the World
Xiao Lang: Reshaping National Identity: Colonial Legacies of Sri Lanka National Museum

Scholar’s Reminiscences
Chen Yue-guang: Tang Yi-jie and the Academy of Chinese Culture

Book Reviews
Lee Ka-hing: Exploring “Wealth beyond Three Generations”: A Review on Ong Kok-chung and Victor Zheng, The Lee Family and a Century of Change in Hong Kong
Lin Qiu-yun: The “Sick Man” Who Reshaped Modern Sino-British Relations: A Review on Li Wu-zhe, Karl Gützlaff and the Opening of China

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Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 212 (December 2025)

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The legacy of the war not only shaped the postwar international order, but also continues to exert a profound influence on today’s global political economy. This issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review” is devoted to the theme “The East Asian Legacy of World War II”, featuring two thought-provoking articles.

The Twenty-First Century Review
The East Asian Legacy of World War II
Shi Yin-hong: An Overview of East Asian International Relations since World War II
Liu Shi-yong: Global Health Governance in Crisis: Insights from Postwar East Asian Experience

Research Articles
Cheng Hong-lei: Masterful Maneuvering: Aoki Nobuzumi’s Activities in China during the National Protection War
Guo Xun-chun: Entanglements between Principle and Reality: Hara Takashi’s Conception and Implementation of Policy toward China (1915–1921)
Chen Ling-yan: The Inception and Conclusion of Technical Collaboration between the League of Nations and China before and after the War of Resistance against Japan

Review Articles
Huang Ko-wu: A Century of Memory, Narrative, and Construction of Sun Yat-sen

Scholar’s Reminiscences
Fortunate Encounters and Shared Journeys: In Remembrance of Professor C N Yang
Chen Fong-ching: Recalling an Association over Thirty-Five Years: In Memory of Professor C N Yang
King Y. C. Ambrose: A Glorious Life Fully Fulfilled: In Remembrance of Professor C N Yang
Chen Yue-guang: Stars Twinkle, Starlight Abides: Understanding Professor C N Yang’s Sentiments from Several Perspectives

View on the World
Chen Guo-sen: The Ethics of Representation: The Aesthetics of Traces in Atrocity Photography

From the Scientific World
Wu Jun, Leung Pui-tang: From Uranium to Thorium: A Nuclear Energy Revolution on the Horizon

Book Reviews
Lin Chao-chun: Reassessing Japan’s “Long War Era”: A Review on Jeremy A. Yellen, Japan at War, 1914–1952
Wen Qiu-ying: How Does the Japanese Public Perceive China: A Review on Kanayama Yasuyuki, Modern Japan’s Sentiments toward China: The Origins of Popular Antipathy

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Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 104 Number 2)

Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 104 Number 2) has been released. There are 32 articles in this issue.

        Special Topic: The 10th Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar (in Chinese)

1. Quan Wan: Sentence-final Particle de in the Zhenjiang Dialect: With a Discussion on the Nature of de in Mandarin Chinese
2. Kehua Chen and Yimin Sheng: The Tense-aspect Marker gezai in Historical Literature of the Wu Dialect: Function and Evolution
3. Xueyuqing Pan and Xiaoyu Lu: Sentence-final Markers of Affirmation in the Taizhou Wu Dialect: Take Xianju and Linhai Dialects for Example
4. Mengyuan Wang: The Sentence-final Particle keh in Jinhua Wu Dialect
5. Dongxiao Huang: The Sentence-final Particle [kəʔ] that Expresses Realis Existence in Haimen Dialect
6. Huayong Lin and Zifei Wu: The Co-occurrence of Two [kɔ]s at the End of Sentences in Lianjiang Yue and
   Maoming Yue in Guangdong Province
7. Dejun Qiu: The Particle [kɔ³³] in Yangchun Cantonese in Western Guangdong: On the Formation Condition
   of the Sentence-final Usage of Structural Particles
8. Yongfang Sun and Kaixuan Zhan: The Interactive Function and Emergence of the Sentence-final Particle ge in the Anyuan Hakka Dialect
9. Yabing Huang: Sentence Final Particle [kɯ] in the Poyang Gan Dialect
10. Niting Yan and Xing Zhang: The Particles [ɡe] and [nĩ] in the Yongchun Dialect
11. Yang Xiao: The Co-occurrence of de and le: Standard Mandarin, Chaoyang Min and Beyond
12. Shuling Ke: The Function of the Sentence-final [kai⁵⁵] in the Chao’an Dialect and Its Evolution
13. Miao Xiang Lim: A Preliminary Study of Sentence-final [e¹³] in Penang Hokkien
14. Xiaoqian Pei: Sentence-final de in the Changde Dialect: Its Syntactic Category, Function and Hierarchy
15. Chen Zhao: The Sentence-final Particle de in the Wuhan dialect
    
    Chinese Language Studies
    
    
16. Wentong Sun: Phase Degradation, Proper Government, and Diachronic Evolution of Preposition Stranding (in Chinese)
17. Yuli Feng: On the Distributive Effect and the Differentiation Requirement of Mandarin Chinese ge (in Chinese)
18. Qiang Li: The Semantic Analysis of the Conjunction huòzhě (in Chinese)
19. Xin Wang: A Study on the Stance-taking Function of “Lao A le” from the Perspective of Interaction (in Chinese)
20. Ruoxi Qin: Language Variation and Transmission: The Emergence of Chinese Measure Word jiān and Its Semantic Generalization and Narrowing (in Chinese)
21. Xuefeng Ying and Liping Zhang: Semantics and Prosody of the “Noun + Cooking Verb” Structure (in Chinese)
22. Zhiyin Yu and Xiaoshi Hu: The Syntax of the Sentence-final Particle gaa3 in Cantonese
23. Yili Wang: Transformation and Geographical Diffusion of the Adverbs Referring to cai in Cantonese (in Chinese)
24. Yuyin Dai and Yuhang Xu: The Conjectural Particle [mɐt⁵⁵ tsei²¹] in the Yangjiang Yue Dialect and Its Pragmatic Functions (in Chinese)
25. Lijuan Wang: The Origin and Formation Mechanism of the Disyllabic Tentative Marker kanqiao in the Nanjing Dialect: On the Function Expansion of Chinese Tentative Markers (in Chinese)
26. Weijun Huang: Heterogeneous Plural Markers nong and wu in the Yixian Dialect in Anhui Province (in Chinese)
27. Yu Zhao: The Multifunctionality of Hanshan Hou and Its Related Issues (in Chinese)
28. Nianfeng Huang: AAAA Reduplication Patterns in Hakka Dialects (in Chinese)
29. Wenwen Zhang and Xiaodong Huang: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Evolution of Erhua Words in Contemporary Beijing Dialect (in Chinese)
30. Yanfeng Shi: Er-diminutives in the Mengjin Dialect: On the Replacement of Non-retroflex Er-diminutive Finals with Retroflex Ones (in Chinese)
31. Zhibo Sun: Evolution and Contact: Sound Change of the Dialect in the Ailing Area of Yangzhou City over the Past 100 Years (in Chinese)
32. Chang Chai: An ERP Study on Lahu Nouns and Verbs (in Chinese)
    
    PDF copies of these articles can be downloaded freely via https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/.