Issue No.17/18, June/December 1999

CONTENTS

• Whose Strange Stories? P'u Sung-ling (1640-1715), Herbert Giles (1845-1935), and the Liao-chai chih-yi - (John Minford & Tong Man)
• Nihonbashi: Edo's Contested Center - (Marcia Yonemoto)
• Was Toregene Qatun Ogodei's "Sixth Empress"? - (I. de Rachewiltz)
• Photography and Portraiture in Nineteenth-Century China - (Regine Thiriez)
• Sapajou - (Richard Rigby)
• Overcoming Risk: a Chinese Mining Company during the Nanjing Decade - (Tim Wright)
• Garden and Museum: Shadows of Memory at Peking University - (Vera Schwarcz)