Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
Reading the Phrase Chun zhi Benben: Multiple Interpretations in the Quotations and Commentaries of the Book of Odes	Pham Lee-moi	1
Boji of the State of Song: How Was Her Death Viewed by Han Scholars?	Yeung Siu Kwai	41
A Power Struggle between Fan Zhongyan and Yan Wenying during the Reign of Emperor Song Renzong	Ho Koon Wan	65
A Study of Jintang Fort on the Northern Song Dynasty's Northwest Frontier	Leung Wai Kei	89
Restoring Chinese Costume: The Reform of the Clothing System during the Reign of Hongwu	Zhang Jia	113
The Xu Fu Legend in Tokugawa Intellectual History	Wai-ming Ng	161
The Narrative Levels in The Story of the Stone: Their Functions and Significance	Zhou Jianyu	177
Literati Moral Evaluation of the Ming and Its Reorientation during the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing and Daoguang Periods	Zhang Ruilong	201
Yan Fu's "Critique of the Social Contract": A Study of Its Source and Purpose, with a Discussion on Huxley’s Influence on Yan Fu	Honglei Cheng	229
After Death: A Study of the Yu Zisan Incident, 1947–1948	He Jiangfeng	259
Women’s Salvation and Collective Order: A Penitential Ritual for Deliverance from the Lake of Blood Performed in Hong Kong	Neky Tak-ching Cheung	287

Review Article
The Prince and His Poet: Xiao Tong, Liu Xiaochuo, and New Directions in Southern Dynasties Literary Studies	Alice W. Cheang	315

Book Reviews
Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation. By Timothy Wai Keung Chan	Robert Ford Campany	329
Cultural Authority and Political Culture in China: Exploring Issues with the Zhongyong and the Daotong during the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties. By Christian Soffel and Hoyt Cleveland Tillman	On-cho Ng	331
Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism. By Stephen C. Angle	Sébastien Billioud	334
Overt & Covert Treasures: Essays on the Sources for Chinese Women's History. Edited by Clara Wing-chung Ho	Beverly Bossler	338
Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism. By Katharine P. Burnett	Anne Burkus-Chasson	346
Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History. By Wang Gungwu	Q. Edward Wang	349
Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature. Edited by Isaac Yue and Siufu Tang	Hugh D R Baker	351
The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo. By Scott D. Seligman	L. Ling-chi Wang	355
The Lius of Shanghai. By Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh	Wen-hsin Yeh	361
China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing. By Charles D. Musgrove	Kristin Stapleton	365

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