| Number 23 June 1994 |
The Twenty-First Century Essays
4
The Predicament of Chinese Agricultural Development
Bian Wu
China: The Past Century
17
The Rise of Modern Shanghai (1843–1852)
Zhu Hong
24
1927: The End of Autonomous Rule at Shanghai
Li Tian-gang
34
Intellectuals, Courtesans, Actors — A Glimpse at the Late Qing Shanghai Society
Xu Min
42
A Dialogue Between Two Revolutions: 1789 & 1911 (Part II)
Sun Lung-kee
View on the World
54
A Dialogue Between Art & Philosophy II — Does Artistic Truth Exist?
Jin Guan-tao & Szeto Lap
Books, Views and Thoughts
69
On Wei Cheng-tung's A History of Nineteenth-century Chinese Intellectual Development
Zhu Yong-jia & Xiao Mu
77
On Wendel's Feminist Theology
Yin Zhi
From the Scientific World
Article
83
Behind Citius, Altius, Fortius
Xin Ding-liang
Research News
95
Yet Another Supernova
Traces for the Top Quark
Lucy's Head
Traces for the Top Quark
Lucy's Head
Special Column
97
Is the Growth Hormone an Elixir of Life?
Tso Wung-wei
Humanities
99
Trinh Minh-ha and Her Experimental Films
Ren Hai
105
Heroine Imagery and Musculine Rhetoric of Chinese Fiction of the "Seventeen Years" Period
Chan Shun-hing
113
Sex Allusions in Lao She's Luo Tuo Xiang Zi
Wong Yoon-wah
Peripatetic Notes
125
In The Woods of Books
Wang Qiang
132
Taking ? As a Mirror
Xin Cai
136
The Syncretising Element in Traditional Chinese Culture
Liu Yuan-yan
Criticism and Response
142
Also on the "State Capacity" of China
Wang Ding-ding
147
On Contemporary Chinese Art: A Poverty of Images
Wu Liang
Economics and Society
149
Current Global Conflict of Interest Structures
Su Tie-ding
159
Tripartite Interactions
161
From the Editor’s Desk
162
Pictorial Credits