Journal of Chinese Studies

Articles (articles in chinese with summary in english)
A Study of the Interpretation and Ritual Significance of the Phrase Hui ji in the Yili	Lee Lok Man	1
A Study of the Images of Swan Geese, Swallows, and Warblers in Chan Poetry and Their Applications in Chinese Buddhist Classics	Kwok Kam Hung	23
A Study of the Origin and Evolution of the Chinese Translation of Bru-sha and Sbal-ti	Wang Pu	59
An Analysis of the Ethnic Composition and Transfer Routes of County-level Officials in Yuan China	Hung Li Chu	83
When a Father Holds the Empire, He Must Bequeath It to His Son: The Change of Heirs Apparent of 1452 and Its Political Influence	Ren Jianmin	107
A Study of Liu Shipei’s Scholarship on the Zuo zhuan and His Conservative Way in Classics Studies in His Later Period	Wong Tsz Yung	141
A New Beginning: National Crises and Gu Jiegang’s Intellectual Changes	Chan Hok Yin	165

Review Article
Some Glosses on the Xunzi: A Review of Eric Hutton, Xunzi: The Complete Text	Jeffrey Riegel	203

Book Reviews
Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China. By Barend J. ter Haar.	Daniel L. Overmyer	323
City versus Countryside in Mao’s China: Negotiating the Divide. By Jeremy Brown	Paul Clark	326
Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200–600. By Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt	Annette L. Juliano	329
Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfthto Fourteenth-Century China. By Sukhee Lee	Nap-yin Lau	333
Whose Tradition? Which Dao? Confucius and Wittgenstein on Moral Learning and Reflection. By James F. Peterman	John Makeham	345
The Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949–1956). By Wilt L. Idema	David L. Rolston	352
Why Be Moral?: Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers. By Yong Huang	Tze-ki Hon	355
Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition. By Barry Allen	Alan K. L. Chan	359
Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County. By Toby Lincoln	Diana Lary	365

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