2012

VOLUME I

Preface (PAOLO SANTANGELO)
1. CHANG KANG-I SUN The Literary Voice of Widow Poets in the Ming and Qing
2. MA XIAOXI The Descendants of Mongolian general Matutaer in Jingshan, Henan Province
3. TOMMASO PREVIATO The Salars of Xunhua: a Muslim enclave in the heart of China
4. PENG HSIAO PING AND CHANG MING CHUNG The Foundations of China's Inward-oriented Policies from the Perspective of the Adam Smith's Political Economy
5. CRISTIANA TURINI The Naxi people in Ming China: the rule of the Mu tusi in Yunnan Province
6. ISAAC YUE The Gendered Discourse of the Chinese Courtesan in 'Du Shiniang Sinks her Jewel Box in Resentment'
7. ZHANG ANFU AND ALESSANDRA CAPPELLETTI Study on the Development of the Tuntian System in Northern Xinjiang during the Qing Dynasty
8. ZHANG ZHIYAN Emotion qing in Early Modern England and Late Imperial China, With a Focus on Emotion in Shakespeare's Plays and Ming-Qing Literature
9. ZHU QIUJUAN An Analysis of the Emotional Friendship Poems in Ming-Qing China

NOTES AND DISCUSSIONS
ALESSANDRA CAPPELLETTI Menggu Shanshui Ditu. "On the Silk Road from Jiayuguan to Mecca from a camelback perspective"

REVIEWS
1. Gianni Criveller (ed.), Giulio Aleni (Ai Rulue), Vita del Maestro Ricci, Xitai del Grande Occidente, Brescia: Fondazione Civilta' Bresciana, Centro Giulio Aleni, 2010, pp. 1-176, 16 plates (Donatella Rossi, Sapienza University of Rome)
2. Kang-i Sun Chang, "The Anxiety of Letters - Gong Zizhen and His Commentary on Love", in Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007), pp. 138-155 (Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza University of Rome)
3. Kang-i Sun Chang, "The Circularity of Literary Knowledge Between Ming China and Other Countries in East Asia: The Case of Qu You's Jiandeng Xinhua", NACS Conference Volume: On Chinese Culture and Globalization, edited by Lena Rydholm, Stockholm: University of Stockholm Press, 2009, pp. 159-170. Review by Paolo Santangelo, Sapienza, University of Rome.
4. Koh Khee Heong, A Northern Alternative: Xue Xuan (1368-1464) and the Hedong School, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 353. (Paolo Santangelo, La Sapienza, University of Rome)
5. Hu Hongbao, Wang Jianmin and Zhang Haiyang, History of Chinese Anthropology, Firenze: SEID Editori, Review by Tommaso Previato, Minzu University of China & La Sapienza University of Rome, and Andrea Enrico Pia (The London School of Economics and Political Science).

VOLUME II

PAOLO SANTANGELO
Textual Analysis and Glossary of Liaozhai Zhiyi 3 and Zibuyu 1