Monumenta Serica, Volume 71, Issue 2 (2023)

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Fateful Fashions
Apophenia in Early Medieval Chinese Mantic Texts
Olivia Milburn
Pages: 283-302
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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“A Living Tradition”
Tracing Chinese Character Divination from Imperial China to Contemporary Taiwan
Anne Schmiedl
Pages: 303-335
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Portrait of a Divine King
Reexamining Zhu Quan’s (1378–1448) Life in the Light of the Veritable Records and Authorial Sources
Bony Schachter
Pages: 337-369
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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1449 Resurrected
Invocations of the Tumu Crisis in Ming Political Discourse, 1517–1518
Aaron Throness
Pages: 371-396
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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The Earliest Transmission of Aristotle’s De anima in China in Lingyan lishao of Francesco Sambiasi S.J.
Tian Shufeng 田书峰
Pages: 397-414
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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What Exactly is a Sum Xu?
The Real Animal behind Michał Boym’s Famous Description and the Linguistic Predicaments of Early Modern Knowledge Transmission
Albert Kozik
Pages: 415-436
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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La Stimmung du paysage dans l’esthétique allemande et les concepts esthétiques chez Wang Fuzhi et Wang Guowei
Fan Jiani 范佳妮
Pages: 437-452
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Students of the Anglo-Chinese College of Malacca, 1818–1843
Fruits of the First Protestant School in Asia
Paul Kua 柯保羅
Pages: 453-488
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Politics, Leadership, and Wisdom
The Making of the I Ging in 1920s Germany
Hon Tze-ki 韓子奇 & Andreas Günter Weis
Pages: 489-515
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Reading Politics in Calligraphy
The Debate over the Authenticity of the Lanting Preface on the Eve of the Cultural Revolution
He Jianjun 何建軍
Pages: 517-539
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science
Chen Huaiyu [陳懷宇], London – New York: Anthem Press, 2023. viii, 205 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. £ 80 / US$ 110 (HB). ISBN 978-1-83998-501-0
Roderich Ptak
Pages: 541-545
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang
Richard John Lynn, Translations from the Asian Classics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. lxxxix, 712 pp. Appendix, Glossary of Terms, Glossary of Proper Nouns, Bibliography, Index. $ 35.00 (PB). ISBN 978-0-231-12387-7
Manuel Rivera Espinoza
Pages: 545-549
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China
Nicholas K. Menzies, Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan. Culture, Place, and Nature: Studies in Anthropology and Environment. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. xx. 288 pp. Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. US$ 105 (HB). ISBN 978-0-295-74945-7
Albert Kozik
Pages: 549-552
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
Nathan Vedal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 321 pp. Bibliography, Illustrations, Index. $35 (PB). ISBN 978-0-231-20075-2
Zbigniew Wesołowski
Pages: 552-556
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Thy Kingdom Come: Rev. Dr. Ernst Faber’s (Hua Zhi’an, 1839–1899) Intercultural-missionary Vision of Chinese Spirituality
Wu Kin Pan, Bochum – Freiburg: projektverlag, 2022. Edition Cathay, 79. 349 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Appendix. EUR 24.80 (PB). ISBN 978-89733-567-7
Gad C. Isay
Pages: 556-560
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901–1980) between Language Study and Language Planning
Mariana Münning, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2022. 312 pp. Figures, Tables, Bibliography, Index. € 44,90 (HB). ISBN 978-3-948791-29-2. Free of charge (PDF). ISBN 978-3-948791-30-8 (PDF)
Cornelia Schindelin
Pages: 560-564
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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Publications Received

Publications Received
Pages: 565-569
Published online: 22 Nov 2023
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