Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
Expression of Judgement, Historiography, Narration, Ancient Chinese Prose, and Comparing Events and Categorizing Phrases: The Theoretical Foundation of Traditional Chinese Narratology	Chang Kao Ping	1
Monetary Policy as Key to State Authority and Income in Tang China	Tan Mei Ah	35
Liu Yuanqing’s Alternative between Official Life and Eremitism, and the Compilation of Daxue xinbian in the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty	Lin Zhan	113
A Reinterpretation of the Significance of the Prefaces to Jin ciyuan by Chen Weisong and Others	Hou Ya-wen	141
High Evaluation to Xu Shen and Zheng Xuan on the Basis of Sima Qian and Ban Gu: Wang Qisun’s Criticism of the Qian-Jia School and Its Meanings	Tsai Chang-lin	171
A Study on the Aim of the Worldly Concerns in Zhengdaoju ji of Duan Qirui	Nicholas L. Chan	209
The Theatrical World Published by the Kaixi shiye: Re-examining the Cantonese Operatic Culture of the 1920s	Yung Sai-shing	235
Images of a Free World Made in Hong Kong: The Case of the Four Seas Pictorial (1951–1956)	Wang Meihsiang	255

Book Reviews
Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. By Sarah Allan	Scott Cook	287
Traces of Grand Peace: Classics and State Activism in Imperial China. By Jaeyoon Song	Anthony DeBlasi	292
Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity: From the Latter Han Dynasty (25–220) to the Tang Dynasty (618–907). By Stephen Eskildsen	Paul van Enckevort	297
The Rise and Fall of a Public Debt Market in 16th-Century China: The Story of the Ming Salt Certificate. By Wing-kin Puk	Ulrich Theobald	309
The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation. By Eirik Lang Harris	Paul R. Goldin	315
Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn. Attributed to Dong Zhongshu. Edited and translated by Sarah A. Queen and John S. Major	Michael Loewe	321
Patrons and Patriarchs: Regional Rulers and Chan Monks during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. By Benjamin Brose	Albert Welter	330
Quest for Power: European Imperialism and the Making of Chinese Statecraft. By Stephen R. Halsey	Ho Hon Wai	336
Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel. By Mark R. E. Meulenbeld	Lai Chi Tim	345
After the Prosperous Age: State and Elites in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou. By Seunghyun Han	Michael Marmé	351

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