2025 No.2
New Publications
  • Journal of Chinese Studies no.80 (January 2025)
  • Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 208 (April 2025), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture
  • Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 209 (June 2025), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture
  • Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 45 Number 1), T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
Journal of Chinese Studies no.80 (January 2025)


This issue spans 240 pages, comprising five academic articles and four book reviews.

Academic Articles
Don Snow: Lingnan Literati and Cantonese Love Songs
Michelle Jia Ye: Bilingual Sources of Kwong Ki Chiu’s English-Chinese Lexicons, 1868–1887
Tong Chun Fung: The Configuration of the Commandery-Regional Kingdom System and the Distribution of Power Between Central and Local Governments in the Early Reign of Han Emperor Wen: Notes upon Reading the Ordinances on Merits from the Zhangjiashan Tomb No. 336
Chang Wei Ling: Mulan Weir and the Competition between Local Communities in Putian, Fujian, during the Song Dynasty
Yeh Yu Hsuan: Shenxian xishu and the “Dual Daily Life” in Comprehensive Daily-Use Books of the Ming Dynasty

Book Reviews
T. H. Barrett: Life and Afterlife in Ancient China. By Jessica Rawson
Lothar von Falkenhausen: The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road. By Xin Wen
Nicholas Morrow Williams: Elegies for Empire: A Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu. By Gregory M. Patterson
Bin Song: Lure of the Supreme Joy: Pedagogy and Environment in the Neo-Confucian Academies of Zhu Xi. By Xin Conan-Wu

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 208 (April 2025), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture


With the development of digital technology, platform economics had risen dramatically in China, profoundly affecting the daily lives of all sectors in the society, and the rights and interests of digital labors are of particular concern. The theme of this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review” is “Platform Economics: A Brave New World?”, in which three articles are published, considering the problems of platform employment from different perspectives.

The Twenty-First Century Review
Platform Economics: A Brave New World?
Wang Jian-hua: Digitalization and the Evolving Trends of Employment Relations in China
Sun Ping, Liang Wei-bo, Liu Gang-ping: Beyond Algorithmic Control: Alternative Digital Practices of Platform Workers
Wu Qing-jun: The Business Model and Governance Dilemma of Platform-based Employment

Research Articles
Song Guo-qing: Redressing Cultural Revolution Injustices: A Study from the Perspective of Transitional Justice
Ren Xi-peng: Revolution and Governance: Debates and Reflections on Class Theory in Contemporary China
Ma Hao-nan: The Transformation and Crisis of “Modern” Narratives: A Study on the Writing of Chinese Intellectual History in the Late Twentieth Century

View on the World
Zhang Wen: The Centennial Changes of Shanghai Photography and Urban Imagination

Glamour of Scholars
Zhang Ning: From Microhistory to Global History: An Interview with Professor Henrietta Harrison (Part I)

From the Scientific World
Chen Qiu-fan: The Literature Revolution in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Book Reviews
Gao Yu-xuan: The Unintended Consequences behind the Thriving E-Commerce Market: A Review on Lizhi Liu, From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China
Li Xiao-tian: Labor Games in Tech Companies: A Review on Tongyu Wu, Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm

For more details, please visit the Twenty-First Century Bimonthly website:
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/en/issues/c208.html


Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 209 (June 2025), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture


On various international diplomatic occasions in recent years, Chinese leaders always mentioned that the Global South is expected to inject an important stabilizing force into the world in chaos. In this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review”, three scholars are invited to discuss the topic of “The Global South in a Changing World” from various perspectives, such as theoretical, diplomatic, and political aspects.

The Twenty-First Century Review
The Global South in a Changing World
Jing Jun: Southern Theory: Dynamic, Pluralistic, and Open Framework of Reference
Ren Xiao: From “Third World” to “Global South”: A Chinese Foreign Policy Perspective
He Bao-gang: Construction, Mobilization, and Contestation: A Critical Examination of Global South Discourses

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
Xin Yi: Vietnam Factors during the Establishment of Sino-U.S. “Security Coordinated Relations against USSR” (1971–1980)
Jiang Hua-jie: From “Three Worlds” to “South-South Cooperation”: Transformation of China’s Third World Policy (1978–1991)

View on the World
Xi Yuan: History after Its End: Experimental Art in the Post-Stalinist Eastern Bloc

Scholar’s Reminiscences
Peng Guo-xiang: Tang Jun-yi’s Experience in Hawaii

Glamour of Scholars
Zhang Ning: Revisiting the Chinese Revolution of 1949: An Interview with Professor Henrietta Harrison (Part II)

Book Reviews
Huang Fei: Human-Nature Interaction in the Mao Era: A Review on Qiliang He, The People’s West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao’s China (1949–1976)
Fang Wan-peng: When the “Beast” Encountered “Civilization”: A Review on Cheng Li-jung, Civilized Beasts: Interpreting Modern Taiwan’s Animal Cultural History through Yuanshan Zoo

For more details, please visit the Twenty-First Century Bimonthly website:
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/21c/en/issues/c209.html


Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 45 Number 1), T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre


Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 45 Number 1) has been released. There are three articles in this issue:

  1. Ka Hin Ng: The Syntax of Cantonese Ho2 Revisited: Sentence-final Particle and Pro-sentence
  2. Vincent Ji-Xin Wang, Hua-Hung Yuan: Grammatical Multifunction via Causativity: Evidence from Morpheme Po55 in the Yanzhou (Jiande) Dialect
  3. Xiaotong Xu, Mitian Chen: The Difference and Motivation of the Semantic Conflation Patterns in Chinese and English Autonomous Motion Event Sentences: Path and Containers
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downloaded freely via https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/.
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