Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
The "Good Fortune" Words in the Bronze Inscriptions and the Dating of the Book of Songs	Cao Jianguo	1
A Study of the Taboo Characters in the Shiji and Their Parallel Passages	Poon Ming Kay	35
On Xun Yue's Employment of the Shiji in His Hanji	Leung Tak Wah	65
A Study on Wang Niansun's Collation of Block-printed Edition of Fangyan	Cheung Kam Siu	103
"Yuanming Fell into Wine and Verse": Su Shi's He Tao Shi and a Re-evaluation of Tao Qian's Poetry	Vincent Yang	149
The "Bare-handed Combat" Style and the Creative Language ofSong Poetics: Composing Poems about Snow by "ForbiddingUsing Words Depicting the Subject Directly" and Creating Ingenious Diction through Painstaking Construction	Chang Kao-ping	173
"Death Resulting from Rejection of Marriage": A Case Studyon the Sudden Death of Ye Xiaoluan (1616-1632)	Wong Juen-kon	213
An Analysis on Love between Husband and Wife in Xu Can's Works	Wai-sin Tsang	253
The Expressions of Self in Wang Tao's 王韜 — Manyou Suilu 漫遊隨錄	Tsui Wai	277
The Significance of Xia Jingguan's Annotation of The Poetry ofMei Yaochen in Chinese Poetics	Ng Suk Tin	303
A Study of the Panyu City of the Nanyue Kingdom	Chen Zehong	319
The Re-establishment and Development of the "Three Capital Guards"Military System during the Reign of Emperor Gaozong of theSouthern Song Dynasty	Leung Wai Kei	333
The Heir Apparent Palace System of the Jin Dynasty:Focusing on the Reign of Emperor Hailing	Tsang Chun Yu	363
Qian Haiyue's History of the Southern Ming and Modern Chinese Historiography	Wing-kin Puk	385
A Comparison of Robert Morrison's and Joshua Marshman's Translations of the Daxue	Wang Hui and Ye Lamei	413

Review Article
Rethinking the Origins of Chinese Historiography: The Zuo Zhuan Revisited	Yuri Pines	429

Book Reviews
The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity. By Charles A. Laughlin.	David E. Pollard	443
A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Constructionof Qing Rule, 1680-1785. By Michael G. Chang.	Nicola Di Cosmo	451
The Analects of Confucius. Translated by Burton Watson.	John Makeham	454
Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China. By Christine Mollier.	Stephen R. Bokenkamp	461
The Story of a Stele: China's Nestorian Monument and Its Reception in the West, 1625-1916. By Michael Keevak.	Franklin Perkins	465
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family. By Susan Mann.	Ann B. Waltner	470
Personal Salvation and Filial Piety: Two Precious Scroll Narrativesof Guanyin and Her Acolytes. Translated and with an introduction by Wilt L. Idema.	Chün-fang Yü	475
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China. By Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley.	Ho Hon-wai	482
Riding the River Home: A Complete and Annotated Translation of Fan Chengda's (1126-1193) Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan Lu). By James M. Hargett.	Cong Ellen Zhang	487
Provincial Patriots: The Hunanese and Modern China. By Stephen R. Platt	Young-tsu Wong	490
Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949. By Wen-hsin Yeh.	Xiaoqun Xu	495
Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China. By Martin J. Powers.	Frank Vigneron	499
Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127-1279). By Hilde De Weerdt.	Kai Marchal	511
The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism. By Max Ko-wu Huang.	Philip A. Kuhn	519
Trial of Modernity: Judicial Reform in Early Twentieth-Century China, 1901-1937. By Xiaoqun Xu.	Bradly W. Reed	525
Lost Soul: "Confucianism" in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse. By John Makeham.	Tze-ki Hon	530

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