Issue No.12, December 1996

CONTENTS

• Tough Guys, Mateship and Honour: Another Chinese Tradition - (W.J.F. Jenner)
• Chinese Landscape Painting-The Golden Age - (Ch'en Chih-mai)
• China in the Eyes of French Intellectuals - (Jean Chesneaux)
• Lady Murasaki's Erotic Entertainment: The Early Chapters of the Tale of Genji - (Royall Tyler)
• The "Autocratic Heritage" and China's Political Future: A View from a Qing Specialist - (Helen Dunstan)
• The Qotong, the Bayad and the Ogeled - (Ceveng C.Z. Zamcarano - translated by Igor de Rachewiltz and J.R. Krueger)
• Raw Photographs and Cooked History: Photography's Ambiguous Place in the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - (Julia Adeney Thomas)
• H.A. Giles v. Huang Chengyi: Sino-British Conflict over the Mixed Court, 1884-85 - (Motono Eiichi)