Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
Rereading the Words xian 鮮 and chao 朝 in the Zuozhuan Account on Shusun Bao	Hsu Tzu Pin	1
Rewriting the Campaign: Frontier Poetry of the Four Elites of the Early Tang	Timothy Wai Keung Chan	23
Exonerating the Horse Trade for the Shortage of Silk: Yuan Zhen's "Yin Mountain Route"	Tan Mei Ah	49
A Re-examination of the Year of Ke Jiusi's Death	Po-zen Wong	97
Judicial Cases in the Mengshui zhai cundu: Faults in the Local Prisons and Related Problems in Legal Justice in Late Ming Guangdong	Tam Ka-chai	115
On the Latin Translation of Mencius of François Noël, SJ	Wong Ching Him Felix	133
The Caotang shiyu and the Change in Ci-poetics in Early Qing: A Study of Zhuihe 追和 Compositions	Zhang Yulong	173
Reception of Chen Weisong's Ci in the Literary Circle of the Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods	Zhang Hongsheng	205
The Phonological System of the Chaozhou Dialect in the Nineteenth Century	Xu Yuhang	223
Production and Circulation of Lithographic-printed Examination Aids in the Late Qing Dynasty: Private Lithographic Publishers in Shanghai from 1880 to 1905	Sim Chuin Peng	245
The Idea of Repentance in Four Contemporary Daoist Liturgical Texts on the Rituals for Feeding and Sublimating Ghosts	Lai Chi Tim	277

Review Article
The Big Cats Will Play: Tang Taizong and His Advisors	David McMullen	299

Book Reviews
Opera and the City: The Politics of Culture in Beijing, 1770–1900. By Andrea S. Goldman	Wilt L. Idema	341
Anyuan: Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition. By Elizabeth J. Perry	Tim Wright	346
Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. By Elizabeth Sinn	Gregor Benton	351
Red Genesis: The Hunan First Normal School and the Creation of Chinese Communism, 1903–1921. By Liyan Liu	Joseph W. Esherick	357
Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writing in a Time of Violence. By Gloria Davies	David E. Pollard	359
Critics and Commentators: The Book of Poems as Classic and Literature. By Bruce Rusk	Haun Saussy	365
李奭學：《譯述：明末耶穌會翻譯文學論》	Pan Feng-chuan	367
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity: Gender and Social Change in China, 1000–1400. By Beverly Bossler	Ellen Widmer	373

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