FRONT MATTER

ARTICLES

G. Ya . Smolin, "Soviet Works on the History of China and Neighboring Countries in the 10^th-13^th Centuries, 1967-1976," pp. 3-18

I. Tsiperovich & L. Kuvshinnikova, "A Bibliography of Soviet Studies on the History of China and Neighboring Countries in the 10^th-13^th Centuries, 1967-1976," pp. 19-53   (WARNING:  7.7 megabytes)

Michael C. McGrath, "A Bibliography of Western Language Sources, 1971-1977, on the Five Dynasties, Liao, Sung, His-Hsia, Chin and Yüan Periods," pp. 54-78

Priscilla Ching-Chung, "Palace Women in the Northern Sung: their Social Organization," pp. 79-97

Chu-tsing Li and John D.Langlois, Jr., "Two Visits to the People’s Republic of China," pp. 98-105

BOOK REVIEWS and DISSERTATIONS
Books Reviews (pp. 106-123)
Luc Kwanten, Imperial Nomads. A History of Central Asia, 500 - 1500. (Herbert Franke)
Lin Shuen-fu, The Transformation of the Lyric Tradition: Chiang K'uei and Southern Sung Tz'u Poetry. (Stuart H. Sargent)
Wang Kuo-wei's Jen-chien tz'u-hua: a Study in Chinese Literary.  Translated by Adele Austin Rickett. (Kang-i Sun Chang)
Dissertations:
      completed, pp. 124-141
      in progress, pp. 142-45

BIBLIOGRAPHIES and BOOK NEWS
Ku Jui-lan, A Bibliography of Chinese Periodical Literature on Sung and Related Periods for 1978, pp. 146-55
Japanese Sung Committee, A Bibliography of Recent Japanese Scholarship on Sung and Related Periods, pp. 156-60
Book News, pp. 161-66

FRONT MATTER

ARTICLES

John Chaffee, “The Rise and Regency of Empress Liu (969-1033),” pp. 1-26.

Huang Kuan-Chung,  “Defensive Structures and Construction Materials in Song City Walls” (Translated by Wen-yi Chen, Peter Lorge, and Tracy G. Miller), pp. 27-66.

Hugh R. Clark, “An Inquiry into the Xianyou Cai:  Cai Xiang, Cai Que, Cai Jing, and the Politics of Kinship,” pp. 67-102.

Peter Bol, “Whither the Emperor?  Emperor Huizong, the New Policies, and the Tang-Song Transition,” pp. 103-134.

Ihara Hiroshi, “The Qing ming shang he tu by Zhang Zeduan and its relation to Northern Song Society - Light and Shadow in the Painting”
(Translated by Yoshida Mayumi), pp. 135-156.

 

Bibliography (pp. 157-314)

Bibliography of Song History Studies in Japan -
Part I:  Updates on Song History Studies in Japan (by Ihara Hiroshi, Hirata Shigeki, Endō Takatoshi, Oka Motoshi, Sue Takashi, Asami Yōji, Ichiki Tsuyuhiko, Kojima Tsuyoshi), pp. 157-1
Part II:  Bibliography of Song History Studies in Japan (1982-2000) (by Katō Masaru, Fukui Nobuaki, Yasuda Junya, Yamaguchi Tomoya)

 

Book Reviews (pp. 315-338)

Academies and Society in Southern Song China, by Linda A. Walton (Peter Bol)

The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi: 1130-1200, by Yung Sik Kim (Charlotte Furth)

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China:  Mountain Villa by Li Gongli, by Robert F. Harrist, Jr. (Michael Fuller)

Poetry and Painting in Song China:  The Subtle Art of Dissent, by Alfreda Murck (Julia K. Murray)

 

News and Notes (pp. 339-368)

Dissertation Abstracts, New Publications, Announcements

 

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FRONT MATTER

Articles

Linda Walton, “‘Diary of a Journey to the North:’ Lou Yu’s Beixing rilu” (pp. 1-38)              

Stuart Sargent, “Music in the World of Su Shi (1037-1101):  Terminology” (pp. 39-82)
 

Research tools

Alister David Inglis, Hong Mai’s Informants for the Yijian zhi (pp. 83-126)

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Bibliography of Song History Studies in Japan (2001) Hirata Shigeki, editor (pp. 127-146)
Part I:  Updates on Song History Studies in Japan:  Economic History (Aoki Atsushi)
Part II:  Bibliography of Song History Studies in Japan (2001) (Uechi Kenji, Yamaguchi Tomoya)

 

BOOK REVIEWS (pp. 147-164)

 The Upright Brush:  Yan Zhenqing’s Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics, by Amy McNair (Peter Sturman)

 Society and the Supernatural in Song China, by Edward L. Davis (Barend J. ter Haar)

 

News and Notes (pp. 165-166)

Dissertation Abstracts

 

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