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The Gest Library Journal
Volume 1, number 1, Winter 1986
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Hung-lam Chu, "The 'Colby Collection' of Rare Chinese Books," pp. 7–33
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Frederick Mote, "The Oldest Chinese Book at Princeton," pp. 34–44
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S. T. Phen, "Foreword to a Rare Book Catalogue by a Gest Library Friend in Shanghai, with an Introduction by the Journal's Editor," pp. 45–52
 
Volume 1, number 2, Spring 1987
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Howard L. Goodman, "Hellmut Wilhelm's Collection at Princeton: Last Stop from Peking and Points Beyond," pp. 5–18
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Gilbert Rozman, "Restricted Circulation," pp. 19–25
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Frederick Mote, "Reflections on the First Complete Printing of the Ssu-k’u Ch’üan-shu," pp. 26–50

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Hung-lam Chu, "High Ch'ing Intellectual Bias as Reflected in the Imperial Catalogue," pp. 51–66

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Chih-p'ing Chou, "Studies of Hu Shih in the People's Republic of China," pp. 67–77

 
Volume 2, number 1, Fall 1987
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Charles L. Yates, "The Gest Library and the Study of Early Modern Japan: A Room with a View," pp. 8–15
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Sai-shing Yung, "Mu-yü shu and the Cantonese Popular Singing Arts," pp. 16–30

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Odoric Y. K. Wou, "Bibliographic Sources for Henan Local History in the People's Republic of China," pp. 31–38

 

Volume 2, number 2, Spring 1988

SPECIAL CATALOGUE ISSUE: CALLIGRAPHY AND THE EAST ASIAN BOOK
FREDERICK W. MOTE AND HUNG-LAM CHU, WITH CH'EN PAO-CHEN, W. F. ANITA SIU, AND RICHARD KENT
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Frederick W. Mote, "Preface: Calligraphy and Books—Their Evolving Relationship through Chinese History," pp. 3–16.

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"From the Earliest Writing to the Earliest Books," pp. 19–48

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"Handwritten Books before and after the Invention of Printing," pp. 49–95

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"The Highpoint of Printing in the Sung and Yüan Dynasties," pp. 97–132
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"New Dimensions in Ming Printing," pp. 133–165

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"Calligraphy's New Importance in Later Ming Printing," pp. 167–202

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"The Best of Ch'ing Books," pp. 203–231

 

Volume 3, numbers 1–2, Spring 1989

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Judith Ogden Bullitt, "Princeton's Manuscript Fragments from Tun-huang," pp. 7–29

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King-fai Tam, "The Significance of the Zhang Henshui Revival," pp. 30–45

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Wu Xiaoling, "Glowing Clouds in an Azure Sky: A Newly Discovered Royal Pageant," pp. 46–55

 

Volume 3, number 3, Winter 1989–1990

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Andrew Markus, "The Daisō Lending Library of Nagoya, 1767–1899," pp. 5–34

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Cui Jian-ying, "The Scope of the Term 'Shan-pen,' the Identification of Woodblock Editions, and the Organization of Catalogues, in Relation to Traditional Chinese Books," pp. 35–60

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F. W. Mote, "Chinese Rare Books in the Modern Research Library," pp. 61–81

 

Volume 4, number 1, Spring 1991

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Martin Collcutt, "An Illustrated Edition of the Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari) in the Gest Library Rare Books Collection," pp. 9–26

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Wang Liqi, "The Sung hui-yao chi-kao and One of Two Newly Discovered Volumes of the Yung-lo ta-tien," pp. 27–39

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Cui Jian-ying, "The Identification of Woodblock-Printed Chinese Books: Five Case Studies," pp. 40–63

 

Volume 4, number 2, Winter 1991

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Nancy E. Chapman, "Friend and Foe: Chou Tso-jen Views Japan in the Shadow of War," pp. 14–34

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Wang Zhen-ping, "Manuscript Copies of Chinese Books in Ancient Japan," pp. 35–67

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De-min Tao, "Traditional Chinese Social Ethics in Japan, 1721–1943," pp. 68–84
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Matsuura Akira, "Yü Sung-nien and His Rare Book Collection," pp. 85–90

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Wang Zeng-yu, "The Yung-lo Collectanea as a Source of Materials for the Study of Sung History," pp. 91–99

 

Volume 5, number 1, Spring 1992

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Hosea Hirata, "Haruki Murakami in Princeton," pp. 10–25
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Stephen F. Teiser, "Hymns for the Dead in the Age of the Manuscript," pp. 26–56
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Uematsu Tadashi, "Institutions of the Yüan Dynasty and Yüan Society," pp. 57–69

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Martin Heijdra and Cao Shuwen, "The World's Earliest Extant Book Printed from Wooden Movable Type? Chüan Seventy-seven of the Tangut Translation of the Garland Sutra," pp. 70–89
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John Winthrop Haeger, "The International Union Catalogue of Chinese Rare Books: A New Phase Begins," pp. 90–92

 
Volume 5, number 2, Winter 1992

SPECIAL ISSUE: EAST ASIAN WOMEN—MATERIALS AND LIBRARY RESEARCH

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Morris Rossabi, "The Study of the Women of Inner Asia and China in the Mongol Era," pp. 17–28

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JaHyun Kim Haboush, "The Texts of the Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Problem of Authenticity," pp. 29–48

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Gary P. Leupp, "Population Registers and Household Records as Sources for the Study of Urban Women in Tokugawa Japan," pp. 49–85

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Janice B. Bardsley, "Feminism's Literary Legacy in Japan: Seitō, 1911–1916," pp. 87–101

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Huang Lin, "A Mirror to Marriage in Traditional China: Notes on A Tangle of Emotions (I-p’ien ch’ing)," pp. 103–117

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Kang-i Sun Chang, "A Guide to Ming-Ch'ing Anthologies of Female Poetry and Their Selection Strategies," pp. 119–160

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Sören Edgren, "The Ching-ying hsiao-sheng and Traditional Illustrated Biographies of Women," pp. 161–174

 

Volume 6, number 1, Spring 1993

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Wang Fan-shen, "Fu Ssu-nien: The Latter Days of a May Fourth Youth," pp. 5–53

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Ye Xianen, "A Note on the Official Documents Preserved in the Meng Shui Studio (Meng shui chai ts'un-tu)," pp. 55–70

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Sören Edgren, "Comments on Professor Cui's Articles," pp. 71–84

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Bangbo Hu, "Maps in the Gazetteer of Yung-an County (Yung-an Hsien Chih)," pp. 85–100

 

Volume 6, number 2, Winter 1993

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Sören Edgren, "I. V. Gillis and the Spencer Collection," pp. 4–30

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Wu Yiyi, "Chinese Technology in Eighteenth-Century American Eyes," pp. 31–54

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Ruowei Yang, "The Liao‑Dynasty Stone Inscriptions and Their Importance to the Study of Liao History," pp. 55–72

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Chuang Shen, "Bibliographical Notes on Two Ancient Chinese Medical Works," pp. 73–91

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David Helliwell (Review Article), "'Impressions de Chine'" (Exhibit on Chinese printing in the Autumn of 1992 in the Galerie Colbert of the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris)," pp. 93–101

The East Asian Library Journal

Volume 7, number 1, Spring 1994

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Yue-him Tam, "To Bury the Unhappy Past: The Problem of Textbook Revision in Japan," pp. 7–42
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Zhenping Wang, "The Use of Japanese Records in Sung Official Histories: A Textual Study," pp. 43‑71

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Jun Fang, "The Gazetteer of the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue: The Record of an Auxiliary Capital Department in the Ming Dynasty," pp. 73–97
 

Volume 7, number 2, Autumn 1994

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Timothy Brook, "Mapping Knowledge in the Sixteenth Century: The Gazetteer Cartography of Ye Chunji," pp. 5–32

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Sugihashi Takao, "The Origin, Proclamation, and Implementation of the Goseibai Shikimoku," pp. 33–40

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So Kee Long, "The Case of A Yun: A Textual Review of Some Crucial Facts," pp. 41–71

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Sören Edgren, "The Weng Family Rare Book Collection," pp. 72–132

 

Volume 8, number 1, Spring 1998.

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Wai-Ming Ng, "The I-Ching in Tokugawa Medical Thought," pp. 1–26

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David Helliwell, "The Repair and Binding of Old Chinese Books," pp. 27–149

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Martin Heijdra, "Who Were the Laka? A Survey of Scriptures in the Minority Languages of Southwest China," pp. 150–198

 

Volume 8, number 2, Autumn 1998

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Stuart Sargent, "Roots of the Way Deep: Su Shi and Bo Juyi," pp. 1–16

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Alfreda Murck, "Misty River, Layered Peaks: Decoding Landscape Imagery," pp. 17–68

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Peter K. Bol, "Reading Su Shi in Southern Song Wuzhou," pp. 69–102

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Kathleen Tomlonovic, "The Poetry of Su Shi: Transmission of Collections from the Song," pp. 103–152

 

Volume 9, number 1, Spring 2000

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Barbara Volkmar, "The Physician and the Plagiarist," pp. 1–77

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Susan Miller, "Jean-Antoine Fraisse at Chantilly," pp. 78–221

 

Volume 9, number 2, Autumn 2000

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Zhang Haihui, "Mo Youzhi and His Song Yuan jiubenshu jingyanlu," pp. 1–18

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Benjamin Wai-Ming Ng, "The Forgery of Books in Tokugawa Japan," pp. 19–45

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Eileen Hsiang-Ling Hsu, "Six-Dynasties Xiejing Calligraphy," pp. 46–111

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Long Darui, "A Note on the Hongwu Nanzang, a Rare Edition of the Buddhist Cannon," pp. 112–147

 

Volume l0, number 1, Spring 2001

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Philip K. Hu, "Retracing Visible Traces," pp. 3–23

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Sören Edgren, "Chinese Rare Books and Color Printing," pp. 24–52

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Robert E. Hegel, "Painting Manuals and the Illustration of Ming and Qing Popular Literature," pp. 53–84

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Zhao Qian and Zhang Zhiqing, "Book Publishing by the Princely Household during the Ming Dynasty: A Preliminary Study," pp. 85–128

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Chun Shum, "'Pictures of the Sage's Traces': A Preliminary Investigation of the Editions of Shengji tu," pp. 129–175

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Robert E. Harrist Jr., "Copies, All the Way Down: Notes on the Early Transmission of Calligraphy by Wang Xizhi," pp. 176–196

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Evelyn S. Rawski, "The Non-Han Peoples in Chinese History," pp. 197–222

 

Volume l0, number 2, Autumn 2001

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Sören Edgren, "Chinese Rare Books Project Report," pp. 1–5

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Cynthia J. Brokaw, "Fieldwork on the Social and Economic History of Chinese Print Culture: A Survey of Sources," pp. 6–59

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Lucille Chia, "Counting and Recounting Chinese Imprints," pp. 60–103

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Anne E. McLaren, "Investigating Readerships in Late-Imperial China: A Reflection on Methodologies," pp. 104–159

 
Volume 11, number 1, Spring 2002
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Liu Qiang, "Through the Fires of Battle, New Life for Rare Books: A Report on the Repair and Restoration of Fire-Damaged Old and Rare Books in the Tsinghua University Collection," pp.1–47
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Wang Qingyuan, "Examination of a Song Edition of the Chunqiu jizhu (Collected Annotations for Spring and Autumn Annals)," pp. 48–95
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Volume 11, number 2, Autumn 2004
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Andrew H. Plaks, "Research on the Gest Library 'Cribbing Garment': A Very Belated Update," pp. 1–39
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Su Chen and Juming Zhao, "The Gest Chinese Research Library at McGill University, 1926-1936," pp. 41–99
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Martin J. Heijdra, "The Development of Modern Typography in East Asia, 1850-2000," pp.100–168
 
Volume 12, number 1, Spring 2006
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William S. Atwell, "Fredrick W. Mote 1922-2005," pp. 1–12
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Thomas Barlett, "Vale, Magister: Reflections on the Integrity of Pre-Modern Chinese Humanism," pp. 13–19
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Julia Murray, "Changing the Frame: Preface and Colophons in the Chinese Illustrated Book Dijian tushuo (The Emperor's Mirror, Illustrated and Discussed)," pp. 20–67
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Nicolas Standaert, "Ritual Dances and Their Visual Representations in the Ming and the Qing," pp. 68–181
   

 

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