Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
The Jade of the Spring and Autumn Period and Its Periodisation	Yeung Kin Fong	1
Complementary Notes on the Explanations of the Mirror Collections of Fu Chai	Yuen Ting Cheuk	31
A Study of the Genuine Body Statue of the Sixth Patriarch Hui Nêng in the Nan Hua Temple	Hsü Hêng-pin	47
A Review of the Histories of the Five Dynasties Written by Ch’ing Scholars	Cheng Che Bun	69
The Operations and Functions of T’ang-pao in Ming Dynasty	Ma Chor Kin	83
A Brief Account of the Historical Materials of Guangdong Artisans Serving in the Ch’ing Court in the Eighteenth Century	Yang Boda	119
Initial Approach to the Encyclopedia in the Late Ch’ing Century	Zhong Shao-hua	139
Methodology of Textual Criticism – Textual Study of Works in Their Ancient Format	Wang Liqi	161
The Literary Criticism of Hsiao Tzu-hsien	Dang Shu-leung	193
Types of Rhetorical Devices in Chinese Literary Criticism	She Yue-fung	215
A Dialectical Study of the Fragments of Li He's "Commentary on Ch'u-tzŭ"	Yeung Chung-key	233
Religion and Politics in Early T’ang China: Taoism and Buddhism in the Reigns of Kao-tsu and T’ai-tsung	Frederick Hok-Ming Cheung	265

Review Article
A Combined Review of Two Studies in the Thoughts of Chang T’ai-yen	Wong Yuk	253

Book Reviews
Michael F. Carson (comp.): A Concordance to Lü-shih Ch’un- ch’iu	D.C. Lau	277
J. Girardot: Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun)	Wong Yuk	279
James H. Cole: Shao hsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth Century China	Ho Hon-wai	281
John K. Fairbank & Albert Feuerwerker (eds.): The Cambridge History of China Vol. 13, Republican China 1912-1949 Part 2	Ho Hon-wai	287
Pei Wenzhong & Zhang Senshui: A Study on the Lithic Arti- facts of Sinanthropus	Tang Chung	291
Sun Chih-ch’u (comp.): Index to Periodical Articles on Bronze Vessels	Chu Kwok Fan	295

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