Journal of Chinese Studies

In Memoriam D. C. Lau
Editor's Note	Chan Hok-lam	xii
Xunzi: Encouragement to Learning	D. C. Lau	1
Biographical Sketch of Professor D. C. Lau	Ho Che Wah	8
Professor D. C. LAU at SOAS	Hugh Baker	12
The Remarkable Scholarship of Professor D. C. Lau (1921 - 2010)	Roger T. Ames	15
A Eulogy of Professor D. C. Lau	F. C. Chen	19
Memories	Richard M. W. Ho	21

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
The Tours, Thought and Course of Learning of the Late-Yuan Confucian Scholar Zhao Pang	Wu Zhao Feng	25
Confucian Scholars' Political Choices in the Yuan-Ming Transition Period: A Comparative Study of Zhao Pang, Zhu Sheng, and Tang Guifang	Zhang Yi	51
Huangming zuxun and Zheng He's Voyages to the Western Oceans	Hui Chun Hing	67
“Rob the Wealth of the Earth”: The Ecological Crisis in Late Imperial China	Young-tsu Wong	87
A Study of the Guangdong Daoist Ritual Text of the Xiantian hushi jilian youke: Its Origin and Transmission	Chi-tim Lai	117
On Xun Yue's Employment of the Hanshu in His Hanji	Leung Tak Wah	143
A Study on the Development of Scholarly Works on the Three Schools of Poetry in the Qing Dynasty: A Perspective from the Dates of the Works and Geographical Locations of the Authors	Cheung Kam Siu	177
Beyond the Horizon of an Avian Fable: “Dazui wu” as an Allegory of the Political Reforms of Wang Shuwen	Tan Mei Ah	217
A Critical Account of Zhang Zi's Shixue guifan with an Analysis of the Convergence between the Rules of Poetry and Prose Composition	Chang Kao-ping	255
Juxtaposition and Contradiction of Two Conceptions of Avant-Garde: The Literary Inclination of the Literary Magazine Xin wenyi	Kwong Ho Yee	285
Modern Pronunciation Categories of Middle Chinese Initial Consonants of Zhi, Zhuang, Zhang, Jing Series and Their Reflection of Historical Strata in Gan Dialects	Wan Bo	317

Review Article
Finding a Place for Mountains in Chinese Religion: Bibliographic and Ethnographic Perspectives	T. H. Barrett	357

Book Reviews
Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature. By Tina Lu	Maram Epstein	375
Mencius. Translated by Irene Bloom. Edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe	Paul R. Goldin	381
Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China. By Robert Ford Campany	John Kieschnick	383
Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform. By Jennifer M. Rudolph	Ho Hon Wai	387
Military Culture in Imperial China. Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo	Arthur Waldron	392
Women's Ritual in China: Jiezhu (Receiving Buddhist Prayer Beads) Performed by Menopausal Women in Ninghua, Western Fujian By Neky Tak-ching Cheung	Brigitte Baptandier	398

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