| Number 48 August 1998 |
The Twenty-First Century Review
The Greap Leap and Contemporary China
4
From the Great Leap Famine to Reform
Yang Da-li
14
Introduction to Recent Studies on the Causes of 1958–61 Famine in China
Kung Kai-sing
22
The Mystery of the Commune — Revisiting the Collectivization of Agriculture
Bian Wu
China: The Past Century
37
Wu Zhi-pu and the Greap Leap Forward in Henan
Xu Ming
48
The Great Leap Forward and the Expansion of State Power: A Case Study of Jiangsu
Gao Hua
59
Transformation of the Commune System in Zhejiang
Zhang Le-tian
66
Red Flag Ballads and Others
Yang Xiao-bin
View on the World
72
Where Is Shanghai? Nineteenth-Century Shanghai on Maps and the Fight over Its Concept as a City
Ye Kai-di
Humanities
90
The Neo-Confucian World of the Dracula(the Alien): A Thought Experiment
Fung Yiu-ming
99
Communitarianism and Confucianism
Karl-Heinz Pohl
107
The Origin and Characteristics of Chinese Ideography
León Vandermeersch
From the Scientific World
Research News
113
The Paranal Giant
Birth of Transgenic Bovine Clones
Yet Another Venter Whirlwind
The Perfect Italian Dinosaur
Birth of Transgenic Bovine Clones
Yet Another Venter Whirlwind
The Perfect Italian Dinosaur
Books, Views and Thoughts
115
Can Eden be Remade? — On the Root of Modern Anxiety
Chen Fong-ching
Criticism and Response
124
Certain Questions in the Current Debate Between Confucianism and Buddhism —
A Discussion with Li Xiang-ping
Lin An-wu
Peripatetic Notes
131
Gu Zhun and Max Weber
Luo Gang
135
Writing in the Age of Quasi-Individualism
Huang Fa-you
138
Writings of the Two Luo's
Deng Yun-xiang
Economics and Society
142
"One Country, Two Systems" and Constitutional Democracy of Hong Kong
Zhang Cheng-long
151
How Secure is Hong Kong's Autonomy under the Basic Law?
Mattias Kumm
159
Tripartite Interactions
160
Pictorial Credits
161
From the Editor’s Desk
