ISSN 0254-9948

Articles

1-35

LI FENG: Succession and Promotion: Elite Mobility During the Western Zhou

37-93

SOPHIA-KARIN PSARRAS: Han and Xiongnu. A Reexamination of Cultural and Political Relations (II)

95-112

BRET HINSCH: The Textual History of Liu Xiang’s Lienüzhuan

113-159

CHEN SHU-FEN: On Xuanzang’s Transliterated Version of the Sanskrit Prajnaparamitahrdayasutra (Heart Sutra)

161-197

CHEN JUE: History and Fiction in the Gujing ji  (Record of an Ancient Mirror)

199-219

HON TZE-KI: Redefining the Civil Governance. The Yichuan Yizhuan of Cheng Yi

221-255

YANG XIAOSHAN: Li Gefei’s "Luoyang mingyuan ji" (A Record of the Celebrated Gardens of Luoyang): Text and Context

257-276

DIANA YEONGCHAU CHOU: Appraising Art in the Early Yuan Dynasty: A Study of Descriptive Criteria and Their Literary Context in Tang Hou’s (1250s–1310s) Huajian (Examination of Painting)

277-324

ANTJE RICHTER: Mit Schätzen beladen heimkehren: Der Schubkarren als glückverheißendes Motiv in volkstümlichen chinesischen Drucken

325-343

PAUL U. UNSCHULD: Chinese Retributive Recipes. On the Ethics of Public and Secret Health Care Knowledge

Reviews Articles

345-361

BERNARD PAUL SYPNIEWSKI: The Use of Variables in the Remnants of Qin Law

363-380

JIA JINHUA: Modern Interpretations of Liushi: The "Hermeneutic Circle" and Its Dissolution

381-392

HARTMUT WALRAVENS: Schriftenverzeichnis des Archimandriten Palladius (P.I. Kafarov, 1817–1878)

Book Reviews and Notes

393-395

STEPHEN ESKILDSEN, The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters (LIVIA KOHN)

396-399

CHEN-MAIN WANG, The Life and Career of Hung Ch’eng-ch’ou (1593-1665). Public Service in a Time of Change (FRANÇOISE AUBIN)

399-401

MANEL OLLE, La invención de China. Percepciones y estrategias filipinas respecto a China durante el siglo XVI (FRANÇOISE AUBIN)

401-403

WILHELM LEIBNIZ, Discours sur la theologie naturelle des Chinois (CLAUDIA VON COLLANI)

404-406

ANTONIO GRAÇA DE ABREU, D. Frei Alexandre de Gouveia, Bispo de Pequim (1751–1808) (RODERICH PTAK)

406-409

Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident. Cahiers de recherches comparatives 26 [2004]. «De la difficulté de juger». Quelques ressources du mode critique en Chine et au Viêt Nam (English abstracts)

411-418

Publications Received

419-420

Contributors

421-422

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