Journal of Chinese Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies
Number 64 (January 2017) of the Journal of Chinese Studies is published. It contains 8 articles and 10 contributions in the Book Review section. | Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english) | | Expression of Judgement, Historiography, Narration, Ancient Chinese Prose, and Comparing Events and Categorizing Phrases: The Theoretical Foundation of Traditional Chinese Narratology | Chang Kao Ping | | Monetary Policy as Key to State Authority and Income in Tang China | Tan Mei Ah | | Liu Yuanqing's Alternative between Official Life and Eremitism, and the Compilation of Daxue xinbian in the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty | Lin Zhan | | A Reinterpretation of the Significance of the Prefaces to Jin ciyuan by Chen Weisong and Others | Hou Ya-wen | | High Evaluation to Xu Shen and Zheng Xuan on the Basis of Sima Qian and Ban Gu: Wang Qisun's Criticism of the Qian-Jia School and Its Meanings | Tsai Chang-lin | | A Study on the Aim of the Worldly Concerns in Zhengdaoju ji of Duan Qirui | Nicholas L. Chan | | The Theatrical World Published by the Kaixi shiye: Re-examining the Cantonese Operatic Culture of the 1920s | Yung Sai-shing | | Images of a Free World Made in Hong Kong: The Case of the Four Seas Pictorial (1951–1956) | Wang Meihsiang | | Book Reviews | | Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. By Sarah Allan | Scott Cook | | Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China. By Jaeyoon Song | Anthony DeBlasi | | Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity: From the Latter Han Dynasty (25–220) to the Tang Dynasty (618–907). By Stephen Eskildsen | Paul van Enckevort | | The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China: The Story of the Ming Salt Certificate. By Wing-kin Puk | Ulrich Theobald | | The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation. By Eirik Lang Harris | Paul R. Goldin | | Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn. Attributed to Dong Zhongshu. Edited and translated by Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major | Michael Loewe | | Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. By Benjamin Brose | Albert Welter | | Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft. By Stephen R. Halsey | Ho Hon Wai | | Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel. By Mark R. E. Meulenbeld | Lai Chi Tim | | After the Prosperous Age: State and Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou. By Seunghyun Han | Michael Marmé |
Twenty-First Century Bimonthly (Issue 159, February 2017), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture  The theme of the current Twenty-First Century Review is The Seventieth Anniversary of the "2.28 Incident". Two essays, "Was the 2.28 Incident Avoidable? : Re-examining the Historical Complexity of the Taiwan Restoration" by ZHENG Hong-sheng and "The Vicissitudes of Transitional Justice as Political Discourse and Practice in Taiwan" by YEH Hao were published.
There were altogether four research articles in this issue: - "Awakening Women: The Women's Self-descriptions in The Ladies' Monthly during the 1930s" by HUANG Jiang-jun
- "The Fear of Identity: The Phenomenon of Suicide in Fuyang District of Anhui Province during China's Land Reform" by MAN Yong
- "Public Health and Social Management during the Period of China's Transformation: A Case Study of Tuberculosis Control in the Coal Mining Industry" by XIA Lin
- "Predicaments of Formalization: Twenty Years' Social Changes in China as Seen through "Zhejiangcun" in Beijing" by XIANG Biao
A new column "Scholar's Reminiscences" was introduced. Memoirs of Yu Ying-shih (I): The Village Life in Qianshan of Anhui Province written by Professor YU Ying-shih was published. In the article, he also discussed his view on the May Fourth Movement.
Renditions Paperbacks Tales from the Top, Research Centre for Translation  Tales from the Top, Edited and Translated by David E. Pollard. Ji Xiaolan, the teller of these tales, was arguably the best read mandarin in the Chinese empire of the late eighteenth century, having edited the Descriptive Catalogue to the imperial library of the Chinese written heritage, a task that took him eight years. Since in later life he held high office and was close to the Qianlong emperor, his tales really were from the top. They conform to a well-established type of literature called biji xiaoshuo, short sketches that record remarkable episodes or events, in his case mostly to do with the supernatural. The tales were gathered from a multiplicity of informants, so reflect a wide variety of views and outlooks. Together they weave a tapestry of daily life in a semi-feudal society, with some high drama as embroidery.
Ji Xiaolan's own take on the supernatural element ranges from healthily sceptical to disarmingly credulous, depending on the point he wants to make or moral position to uphold. But throughout there is ample evidence of his legendary wit. This Renditions Paperback is a companion volume to David Pollard's Real Life in China at the Height of Empire: Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan, Chinese University Press, 2014.
Renditions Paperbacks Xu Zhimo: Selected Poems, Research Centre for Translation
 Xu Zhimo: Selected Poems, edited by Mary M. Y. Fung; translated by Mary M. Y. Fung and David Lunde. Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) was the best-known poet of the early period of the New Poetry in China, not only for his beautiful, melodious poetry but also his tempestuous love affairs and tragic death. He championed English Romanticism and the cultivation of the Romantic self. His introducing poems by Thomas Hardy, Keats, and Shelley and their various metrical forms, experimenting with verse forms and fusing them with his expert control of the vernacular language, combining elements of English and classical Chinese, broadening the subject matter and treatment of themes, are lasting contributions to modern Chinese poetry. The fifty poems selected here are characteristic of Xu's style, displaying his efforts at innovation. This anthology of English translations of Xu's poems, the first of its kind, published on the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of his birth, is a tribute to the poet and celebrates his important and pioneering position in the development of modern Chinese poetry.
《盱古衡今──鄭德坤教授百十誕辰紀念》, Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art
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Her Distinguished Brushwork – An Exhibition Featuring Paintings by the Seventeenth-Century Artist Li Yin, Art Museum  This bilingual catalogue with full colour illustrations is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Her Distinguished Brushwork – An exhibition featuring paintings by the seventeenth-century artist Li Yin", which features a selection of paintings by the woman painters, such as Li Yin, Wen Chu and Cai Han, collected at the Art Museum, CUHK, the Shanghai Museum and the Palace Museum at Beijing. The catalog interrogates issues faced by seventeenth-century Chinese women painters: how did they construct their artistic personae and how did their works bring benefits to them and their families?
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