Issue No.25/26, June/December 2003

CONTENTS

• The Origins of Han-Dynasty Consort Kin Power - (Brett Hinsch)
• Inventing the Romantic Kingdom: the Resurrection and Legitimization of the Shu Han Kingdoom before the Romance of the Three Kingdoms - (Simon Shen)
• Illusions of Grandeur: Perceptions of Status and Wealth in Late-Ming Female Clothing and Ornamentation - (Sarah Dauncey)
• The Legal and Social Status of Theatrical Performers in Beijing during the Qing - (Ye Xiaoqing)
• In the Tang Mountains We Have a Big House - (Michael Williams)
• The Eve of Park's Military Rule: the Intellectual Debate on National Reconstruction, 1960-61 - (Kim Hyung-A)
• Japanese Orphans from China: History and Identity in a 'Returning' Migrant Comminity - (Li Narangoa)
• Sun-Facing Courtyards: Urban Communal Culture in Mid-1970s' Shanghai - (Nicole Huang)
• Liu Dong and his Defence of Theory and Confucianism as Practice - (Gloria Davies)
• The Weberian View and Confucianism - (Liu Dong - Transted by Gloria Davies)