HJAS 83/1 Published

The current issue (Volume 83, Number 1) includes:

research articles:

YUDA YANG & NANNY KIM on reevaluating the scale of Ming and Qing silver mining outputs
VINCENT GOOSSAERT on Daoist catechisms’ promotion of the god Laojun in post-Yuan China
YAN LIU on the material and cultural history of saffron’s transmission to China

review essays:

NICOLAS TACKETT on the history and future of applying digital methods to China studies
SUNG-SHENG YVONNE CHANG on the state-of-the-field in the study of Taiwan Literature

and reviews of books by John R. Bentley, Ksenia Chizhova, D. Jonathan Felt, Yoshikuni Igarashi, Sangjoon Lee, Hoyt Long, Mark R. Mullins, Éric Trombert, David Der-wei Wang, and Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang

To view the full table of contents, please visit the HJAS website. The full issue is available on Project MUSE.

About HJAS: Founded in 1936 under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS) has without interruption pursued its mission to disseminate original, outstanding research and book reviews on the humanities in Asia, focusing at present on the areas of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia.

For a complete run of back issues online, with a five-year moving wall, see JSTOR. Starting with Volume 69 (2009), issues are also available through Project MUSE. For more information, please visit the HJAS official website.