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| Volume 1, number 1, Winter 1986 | |
| Hung-lam Chu, "The 'Colby Collection' of Rare Chinese Books," pp. 7–33 | |
| Frederick Mote, "The Oldest Chinese Book at Princeton," pp. 34–44 | |
| 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 | |
| Howard L. Goodman, "Hellmut Wilhelm's Collection at Princeton: Last Stop from Peking and Points Beyond," pp. 5–18 | |
| Gilbert Rozman, "Restricted Circulation," pp. 19–25 | |
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 |
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| Volume 2, number 1, Fall 1987 | |
| Charles L. Yates, "The Gest Library and the Study of Early Modern Japan: A Room with a View," pp. 8–15 | |
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 |
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Volume 2, number 2, Spring 1988 |
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| 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 | |
"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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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 |
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Volume 5, number 1, Spring 1992 |
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| Hosea Hirata, "Haruki Murakami in Princeton," pp. 10–25 | |
| Stephen F. Teiser, "Hymns for the Dead in the Age of the Manuscript," pp. 26–56 | |
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 | |
John Winthrop Haeger, "The International Union Catalogue of Chinese Rare Books: A New Phase Begins," pp. 90–92 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Volume 11, number 1, Spring 2002 | |
| 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 | |
| Wang Qingyuan, "Examination of a Song Edition of the Chunqiu jizhu (Collected Annotations for Spring and Autumn Annals)," pp. 48–95 | |
| Hok-lam Chan, "Zhu Yunming's Qianqwenji (Memoir of By-Gone Events): A Neglected Source on Li Tan's Rebellion of 1262," pp.96–139 | |
| Volume 11, number 2, Autumn 2004 | |
| Andrew H. Plaks, "Research on the Gest Library 'Cribbing Garment': A Very Belated Update," pp. 1–39 | |
| Su Chen and Juming Zhao, "The Gest Chinese Research Library at McGill University, 1926-1936," pp. 41–99 | |
| Martin J. Heijdra, "The Development of Modern Typography in East Asia, 1850-2000," pp.100–168 | |
| Volume 12, number 1, Spring 2006 | |
| William S. Atwell, "Fredrick W. Mote 1922-2005," pp. 1–12 | |
| Thomas Barlett, "Vale, Magister: Reflections on the Integrity of Pre-Modern Chinese Humanism," pp. 13–19 | |
| 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 | |
| Nicolas Standaert, "Ritual Dances and Their Visual Representations in the Ming and the Qing," pp. 68–181 | |


