Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
A Study of the Citations of the Mencius found in the Xunzi, with an Aim to Rethink the Authorship of the “Xing e” Chapter	Ho Che Wah	1
A Discussion of the Han Dynasty’s Systems of Coffin Bestowal	Liu Kewei	25
Wandering and Pursuing Dao: Zhu Xi’s “Wuyi Boating Song” and Its Extension in Writings in Joseon Dynasty Korea	I Lofen	53
Re-reading Jiang Kui’s Lyric Poetry: An Analysis of the “Hefei Incident” and Its Implications	Tsui Wai	73
Beyond the Kingly Metaphor: A Sociological Reading of the Scripture of the Jade Sovereign	Bony Schachter	95
Wang Yangming’s Old Edition of the Great Learning and Its Contemporary Competitors: A Case Study of Zhan Ruoshui and Fang Xianfu	Liu Yong	159
On the Two Conditions for Legal Money: A Study of the Monetary Policy of Ming China during the Jiajing Era	Cheung Sui Wai	183
The Unalterable Mean: Some Observations on the Presentation and Interpretation of Zhongyong of François Noël, SJ	Wong Ching Him Felix	197
Analogy and Fang Bao’s Assertion on Yi and Fa of Ancient Chinese Prose: Based on the Study of History, Preface, and Postscript in Fang Bao’s Collected Essays	Chang Kao-ping	225
Local Tradition and Loyalist Sentiment: White Snow Ci Society and Its Corresponding Lyrics in Early Republican China	Lap Lam	261

Book Reviews
Martial Spectacles of the Ming Court. By David M. Robinson	Roger Des Forges	299
Communication and Cooperation in Early Imperial China: Publicizing the Qin Dynasty. By Charles Sanft	Paul R. Goldin	306
Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War. By Wang Zhenping	Nicola Di Cosmo	309
Idle Talk: Gossip and Anecdote in Traditional China. Edited by Jack W. Chen and David Schaberg	Christian de Pee	314
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece. By Lisa Raphals	Edward L. Shaughnessy	319
Birth of an Empire: The State of Qin Revisited. Edited by Yuri Pines, Gideon Shelach, Lothar von Falkenhausen, and Robin D. S. Yates	Miranda Brown	332
Emperor Huizong. By Patricia Buckley Ebrey.	John W. Chaffee	336
Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire. By Liang Cai	Hans van Ess	341
White Lotus Rebels and South China Pirates: Crises and Reform in the Qing Empire. By Wensheng Wang	Ho Hon Wai	347
Unearthing the Changes: Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts. By Edward L. Shaughnessy	Cheng Kat Hung Dennis	353
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis. By Yiching Wu	Jeremy Brown	361

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