New Frontiers in Asian Scholarship

February 6, 2012
The Arrangement of Tang Mausoleums: Space and Order

The Arrangement of Tang Mausoleums: Space and Order (《唐陵的布局：空间与秩序》) , by Shen Ruiwen (沈睿文). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2009, 7+5+2+378pages.

Reviewed by Li Fangyao (PhD candidate, Department of History, Peking University; Harvard-Yenching Visiting Fellow 2011-12)

December 12, 2011
Norman Bethune’s Children

Xue Yiwei, Norman Bethune’s Children. This novel has been published in installments in the journal New Land Literature, Taiwan, since 2011, Issue 2. The whole book will be published in Taiwan in the spring of 2012. 薛憶溈：《白求恩的孩子們》，正連載於台灣《新地》文學季刊，2011年第2期始。全書明年春天將於臺灣出版。

Reviewed by Yao Dadui (Ph.D. candidate, Literature, Zhongshan University; HYI Visiting Fellow 2011-12)

September 20, 2010
Middle-Level Civilian Officials in the T’ang Dynasty

Middle-Level Civilian Officials in the T'ang Dynasty, by Lai Rui-he (Taibei: Lian jing chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2008. 624pp.)

賴瑞和著《唐代中層文官》(台北：聯經出版事業股份有限公司，2008年)

Reviewed by Siu Kam-wah, Joseph (D.Litt. Kyoto), Instructor I, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

August 23, 2010
Study on Bamboo and Silk Versions of Wuxing and Other Newly Unearthed Confucian Texts

Study on Bamboo and Silk Versions of Wuxing and Other Newly Unearthed Confucian Texts 竹帛《五行》與簡帛研究, by CHEN Lai 陳來 （Beijing: Sanlian Book Store北京：三聯書店, 2009）

Reviewed by PENG Guoxiang彭國翔, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Intellectual History and Religion, Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University. HYI Visiting Scholar, 2007-2008.

July 26, 2010
Japanese Culture in East Asia

Japanese Culture in East Asia, by MURAI Shosuke (Tokyo: Hoso Daigaku Kyoiku Shinkokai,　2005) 村井章介 『東アジアのなかの日本文化』（放送大学教育振興会、2005年）

Reviewed by MITANI Hiroshi, Professor of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan