Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
The Timely Manner of Confucius and the Personality Symbolism of Birds and Beasts: A New Interpretation of Analects 10.27	Wu Zhu	1
How Did the Chinese Buddhist Exegetes Mark up the Three-Dimensional Structures of Their Commentaries? Zhenjian 真鑑 and His Gan-zhi 干支 Method	Tao Jin	21
"Now your ambassador requests to allow the foreigners to preach freely? ": The Preaching Issue in Emperor Qianlong's Second Letter to the British King in the Macartney Mission	Lawrence Wang-chi Wong	47
A Study of the Circumstances behind the Writing of the "Four Books of Wang Niansun and Wang Yinzhi"	Yu Wanli	71
Translation or Exaggeration: Guo Songtao's Shixi jicheng in the West	Li Jiaqi	119
Uncorrupted Officials, Collaborators, and the Yellow River: The Art of Governance in The Travels of Lao Can	Hsu Huilin	151
Between Enlightenment and Entertainment: The Theatre Reform Practice of the Beijing Female Opera Troupe Zhide She in the Early Republic of China	Wu Wan-yi	173

Book Reviews
Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China. By BuYun Chen	Jonathan Karam Skaff	199
A History of Modern Tibet, Volumn 4: In the Eye of the Storm: 1957–1959. By Melvyn C. Goldstein	Fabienne Jagou	205
Negotiating Inseparability in China: The Xinjiang Class and the Dynamics of Uyghur Identity. By Timothy Grose	Giulia Cabras	211
The Kongs of Qufu: The Descendants of Confucius in Late Imperial China. By Christopher S. Agnew	Julia K. Murray	217
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market. By Julia Chuang	Joel Andreas	225
Buddhism After Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions. Edited by Ji Zhe, Gareth Fischer, and André Laliberté	Richard Madsen	226
The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China. By Shao-yun Yang	Hugh R. Clark	231
The White Lotus War: Rebellion & Suppression in Late Imperial China. By Yingcong Dai	Ho Hon Wai	235

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