Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 198 (August 2023),
Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture



Since the outbreak of trade war between China and the United States in 2018, the Sino-US relationship is getting worse, with ongoing clashes in various areas such as diplomacy, military, science and technology, and there is no sign of easing. From a geopolitical perspective, East Asia is undoubtedly a hotspot in the current Sino-US tug-of-war. “The Twentyfirst Century Review” presents the topic “China-US Rivalry and the Political Order of East Asia”, in which experts and scholars are invited to explore the issue from different perspectives.

The Twenty-First Century Review: China-US Rivalry and the Political Order of East Asia
Shi Yin-hong: The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) in the US Strategy towards China
Kawashima Shin: Japan’s Policy towards China and the Prospects of Sino-Japanese Relations
Lim Chuan-tiong: Historical Analysis of Four Taiwan Strait Crises and US Intervention

Research Articles
Donggil Kim: Securing the Northern Part of North Korea without Fighting: Reconsideration of China’s Intervention in the Korean War
Shen Zhi-hua: China’s Intervention in the Korean War: Analysis and Reflections
Chen Jian: Revisiting Several Salient Issues of the Chinese Experience in the Korean War

Research Notes
David Cheng Chang: The Korean War Armistice Talks and the US Policy of “Voluntary Repatriation” of Prisoners

View on the World
Zhang Xian-min: Entity without Boundaries: War Documentaries about Ukraine and Other Places

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

Book Reviews
Chen Fang-hao, Zhou Rui: Material History in the Early Period of the People’s Republic of China: A Review on Laurence Coderre, Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China
Zhang Yu-qing: Factional Conflicts in a Rural Chinese County during the Cultural Revolution: A Review on Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder, A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China

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



Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 102 Number 2), 
T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre



Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 102 Number 2) has been released. There are 6 articles in this issue.

1. Yanbin Diao: On the Micro Comparative Study of Huayu Vocabulary — Take “Zuo（做）/ Zuo（作）+ Verb” as an Example
2. Shan Wang: Comparison of Zhòngshì ‘Emphasize’ in the Chinese Mainland and Taiwan
3. Man Lung Chong: Preliminary Study on the “AA聲 (sound)” in Cantonese
4. Joengzit Lai, Paàng Wòng, Junxin Huang and Gaa On Ng: The Affiliation of Cantonese at the Sino-Vietnamese Border in the Late 19th Century
5. Shuaichen Wang: Yangping Tone Sandhi in Baoding Dialects
6. Yang Sheng: A Renewed Discussion on the Pronunciation of “Yinwei”

PDF copies of these articles can be downloaded freely via https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/.