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No. 27, September 2011
1911: the Xinhai Year of Revolution 辛亥革命

• From the Edge, introduced by David Brophy
• Revolution, Counter-revolution, Devolution: Xinhai in Lingzhou, Gansu province, by Anthony Garnaut
• Mongolia and the Short Life of North-West Magazine, by Justin Tighe
• Five Races, One Parliament: Minority Representation in the Early Republic, by David Brophy
• A Century after the Qing, by Charles Horner and Eric Brown
• The End of the Queue, by Michael R. Godley
• Three Chinese Historians on Xinhai:
  • The Qing Court Manufactured Revolutionaries, by Lei Yi 雷颐
  • Xinhai: China's Crossroads, by Yang Guoqiang 杨国强
  • We Know the Actors, But What Was the Script?, by Qin Hui 秦晖
• CIW-Danwei Archive: on Xinhai
• An Association to Save China, a Documentary Account, by Jane Leung Larson
• Xinhai Sketches (Chinese), by Sang Ye 桑晔
• New Books on Xinhai, an overview from 1510

• Accounting for 111 Years, an oral history by Sang Ye
• Morrison's World, by Linda Jaivin
• Liang Qichao 梁啓超 in Australia, by Gloria Davies
• ‘Datong: The Great Society 大同: 康有爲在瑞典’, a film by Evans Chan

• Whose Literacy?, by GRB
• The Night New York's Chinese Went Out for Jews, by Scott Seligman
• A View from the Bridge, by Pierre Ryckmans

• Ghulja in 1912: A Chronicle from the Russian Muslim Press, translated and introduced by David Brophy
• China, Tibet and the Dynamics of Inland Borders, a keynote address by Robbie Barnett
• Rethinking 1911: A Report on an AAS Panel, by Peter Zarrow
• Binding Friendship: Ricci, Jesuits, China, by Jeremy Clarke, SJ

No. 26, June 2011
China's Prosperous Age (Shengshi 盛世)

• The Children of Yan'an, by GRB
• Shengshi 盛世, Chinese Values and Han Yu 韓愈, by Timothy Cheek
• Fragile Prosperity, by Gloria Davies
• China's Prosperous Age: A Century in the Making, by William C. Kirby
• Flourishing China: The Normative Dimension, by Klaus Mühlhahn
• Shengshi and the Naming of Contemporary China, by Wen-hsin Yeh
• Shengshi 盛世 Today: From the CIW-Danwei Online Archive
• Yang Jiang’s 楊絳 Conspicuous Inconspicuousness, by Christopher G. Rea
• Chan Koon-chung's Harmonious China, by Linda Jaivin

• A View on Ai Weiwei's Exit, by GRB
• The Underside of China's Prosperous Age, a book review by Linda Jaivin
• Confucius Institutes and Controlling Chinese Languages, by Michael Churchman
• Initiating Prosperity: A Televisual Tale from the Tang dynasty, by Nadia Sartoretti

• An Interview with Pierre Ryckmans, by Daniel Sanderson
• Tianxia Workshop, a report by Xie Fang
• Asian Values, a book review by Leigh K. Jenco
• Extracts from a Penang Hokkien Dictionary, by Michael Churchman

• Felice Beato—A Photographer on the Eastern Road, a review by Lois Conner
• Master Li's Mountain Hut Book Collection 李氏山房藏書記, by Su Shi 蘇軾, translated by Duncan Campbell
• Chinese Garden Research in the Twenty-first Century, a conference report by Winnie Y.L. Chan and Antonio Jose Mezcua Lopez
• Representing China: From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou, a conference report by Daniel Sanderson

No. 25, March 2011
Wine (jiu 酒) and Commemorating Yang Xianyi 楊憲益

• Walking with Xianyi, by GRB
• The Baiwan Zhuang Speakeasy, by Linda Jaivin
• Yang Xianyi: In Tribute
• The Disaffected Gentleman, by Wu Zuguang 吴祖光
• Speaking of a Title 从《解忧集》的书名出处谈起, by Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (Chinese)
• After Wine 酒故, by Huang Miaozi 黄苗子 (English)
• After Wine 酒故, by Huang Miaozi 黄苗子 (Chinese)
• Wine: the Worthy and the Disciple 酒、酒仙、小酒徒, by Zou Ting 邹霆
• My Friend the Memory Hole, by GRB
• Wine T'ien Hsia 域外酒谈, by GRB 白杰明 (Chinese)

• Driving in Circles, by Sang Ye 桑晔
• Dimensions of Fidelity in Translation, by Yuen Ren Chao 趙元任
• Injecting Chicken Blood, by Joel Martinsen

• 中国通 or 'Sinophone'?, by Edward McDonald
• East Asian Studies at Princeton, by Frederick W. Mote
• A Note on Mr Decadent, by Qian Zhongshu 錢鐘書
• China: A Short Cultural History, reviewed by Edward Ainger

• Yuan Hongdao 袁宏道 on Orchid Pavilion 蘭亭, by Duncan Campbell
• Kangxi 康熙 and Tomás Pereira’s Beard, by Eugenio Menegon
• Ernst Boerschman: a symposium, conference report by Eduard Kögel

No. 24, December 2010
Ernst Boerschmann's China

• Temple of Marquis Liu 留侯祠
• Southern Heaven Gate 南天門
• Thousand Buddha Cliffs 千佛岩
• Dragon Bridges 龍橋
• Temple of Ma Chao 馬超祠
• Temple of Imperial Favour 皇澤寺
• Lion's Den 獅子窩
• Temple of Manifest Ability 顯通寺
• Jinci Temple 晉祠
• Great Goose Pagoda 大雁塔
• Half-side Temple 半邊寺
• The Golden Peak of Mount Emei 峨眉山金頂
• Researching Ernst Boerschmann in Berlin, by Eduard Kögel

• The Long Bow Appeal, an update
• Qujiang 曲江: Loved Up on History and Culture, by Linda Jaivin
• Tear Down the Palace!, by Joel Martinsen
• Zhu Yizun's 朱彝尊 Beijing, by Duncan Campbell

• Inaugural Lecture at the ANU, by Liu Ts'un-yan 柳存仁
• Vast Land of Borders, by Carolyn Cartier and Tim Oakes
• Resistance: Between Discourse and Practice, by Xu Jilin 许纪霖
• Beyond the Text and Behind the Headlines, by GRB

• Passages from Ouyang Xiu's 歐陽修 A Record of Collected Antiquity 集古錄
• A Sylvan Symposium: Garden Culture of the Qing Dynasty, by Nancy Berliner
• A Note on the 'Qianlong Garden' 乾隆花園, by GRB and Sang Ye 桑曄

No. 23, September 2010
Matteo Ricci, after four hundred years

• A Calendar of Commemorations
• Matteo Ricci: Shaped by the Chinese, by Nicolas Standaert
• In Praise of Xu Guangqi 徐光啓, by Aloysius Jin Luxian 金魯賢
• The Wise Man from the West, an online lecture by Antoni Üçerler
• When West Met East, by Jeremy Clarke

• A Bible for Beijing, by Pierre Fuller
• Shanghai World Expo, a photographic essay by Lois Conner
• Zhang Ruogu 張若谷, the Europhile, by Jonathan Hutt

• Introducing the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW)
• The Mosquito Press, by David Chi-hsin Lu 盧祺新
• The Foreign Mentality, by Randall Gould

• Teilhard de Chardin in China, by Bede Bidlack
• The Reappearance of Yangshao, by Magnus Fiskesjö
• Rubbings: China’s Black Tigers, a review by Duncan Campbell

No. 22, June 2010
The Heritage of Shanghai

• A Hymn to Shanghai, by Lin Yutang 林語堂
• The Shanghai Style 上海氣, by Zhou Zuoren 周作人
• Shanghai Modern, a Photographic Essay, by Lois Conner
• Shanghai Culture Lost, by Xu Jilin 许纪霖
• Sub-Urbia, by Jonathan Hutt
• Sapajou, by Richard Rigby
• Monstre Sacré, Sinmay Zau 邵洵美, by Jonathan Hutt
• Lu Xun 魯迅 on the Shanghai Haze, by Gloria Davies

• Contemplating Reading: Sixteen Views, by Chen Jiru 陳繼儒
• Chan Koon-chung 陳冠中 & China’s Prosperous Age, by Linda Jaivin
• The History Lessons of Yuan Tengfei 袁腾飞, by Eric Mu

• Architecture Chronicle, by Dayu Doon
• Mickey Does All-Under-Heaven, by Daniel Sanderson
• The China Boom, by Emily Hahn
• Shanghai, City for Sale, reviewed by Emily Hahn

• Red Legacies in China: a conference report, by Jie Li 李洁 and Enhua Zhang 张恩华

No. 21, March 2010
The Architectural Heritage of Tianjin
Guest editor: Maurizio Marinelli

• The New I-Style Town, by Maurizio Marinelli
• Colonial Houses and Martial Arts Fiction, by Chen Songchuan
• A Western Chinese Villa, by Elizabeth LaCouture
• Draft Sketches from a Tientsin Journal, by John Minford
• Between Development and Heritage, by Aoki Nobuo and Xu Subin
• A Grass-roots View of the ‘Tianjin Model’, by Du Yu

• Ming Fever, by Michael Szonyi
• China’s Promise, by Geremie R. Barmé
• The Harmonious Evolution of Information in China, by Geremie R. Barmé

• A Window on the Forbidden City, by Sang Ye
• The Tianxia System: World Order in a Chinese Utopia, by Zhang Feng

• Wanggiyan Lincing's Tracks in the Snow, an excerpt
• Paradise Regained, a book review by Duncan Campbell

No. 20, December 2009
The Heritage of Books, Collecting and Libraries
Guest editor: Duncan M. Campbell

• Vale: Yang Xianyi
• The Universal Library, by Duncan Campbell
• The Search for Traditional Libraries, by Wei Li
• A Bibliophile in Sin, by Don Cohn
• On Reading A Record of the Gardens of Jiangnan, by Huang Shang

• An Educated Man is Not a Pot 君子不器, an interview with Pierre Ryckmans
• The Han Supremacist: An Interview, by Sang Ye
• The Ninety-nine Ways of Destroying the Manchus, by L. Carrington Goodrich

• Introduction
• Editorial Commentary, Wen Yüan-ning
• Library Chronicle, by V.L. Wong
• The Chinese Book: Its Evolution and Development, by K.T. Wu
• Libraries and Book-Collecting in China Before the Invention of Printing, by V.L. Wong
• Cheng Ch'iao, A Pioneer in Library Methods, by K.T. Wu
• Chinese Gardens: Especially in Kiangsu and Chekiang, by Chuin Tung

• Venturing into Magnum Cathay, by Barbara Hoster and Dirk Kuhlmann
• Research Notes: National Commemorative Ceremonies, by Geremie R. Barmé & Sang Ye
• Founding of a Nation 建国大业, a film review by Gloria and Michael Davies

No. 19, September 2009
The Heritage of T'ien Hsia, All-Under-Heaven

• Vale: David Hawkes, Liu Ts'un-yan, Alaistair Morrison
• What's Possible?
• Forward to T'ien Hsia Monthly, by Sun Fo 孫科
• Nationalism and Internationalism, by C.L. Hsia 夏晉麟
• 1949-2009: Sixty Years Out of Range, by Sang Ye

• 嘉 The Triumph: A Heritage of Sorts, by John Minford
• On the Wickedness of Being Nomads, by Owen Lattimore
• Days of 15 Shelley Street, by Anthony Yu
• 1959: Fifty-thousand Orphans and the Way Home, by Sang Ye
• 1999: The Future is Served, a film by Andrea Cavazzuti and Carlo Laurenti
• Australia's Asia: An Illiterate Future?, by Michael Dutton and Deborah Kessler

• Critical Han Studies, by Thomas Mullaney, Mark Elliot and James Leibold
• A Manchu Strange Tales, by Jakdan
• Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong, by Claire Roberts

No. 18, June 2009
The Heritage of Commemoration, Part II

• 1919: Re-conceiving May Fourth, by Vera Schwarcz
• 1949: The First National Day
• 1959 & its Aftermath: New Years Past
• 1959: Preventing Peaceful Evolution, by Qiang Zhai
• 1969: April Fools' Day
• 1979: Huang Shan, Selling Scenery to the Bourgeoisie
• 1989: Totalitarian Nostalgia
• 1999: The Parade
• 2009: The Long Bow Appeal

• Trading on Heritage, by Xu Zhiyuan
• The View from Seventeenth-Century Yellow Mountain, by Stephen McDowall

• In Search of Old Libraries, by Duncan Campbell
• In Quest of the Authentic Confucius, a book review by John Makeham
• The Wujing Project

No. 17, March 2009
The Heritage of Commemoration, Part I

• The May Fourth Spirit, Now and Then, by Cai Yuanpei, et al
• Historical Memories of May Fourth: Patriotism, but of what kind?, by Xu Jilin
• Thirteen National Days, a retrospective
• Confession, Redemption and Death

• Lieux de memoire
• Discovering a Nationalist heritage in present-day Taiwan, Jeremy E. Taylor

• Orchid Pavilion: An Anthology of Literary Representations, by Duncan Campbell
• Observing the Rites at the Ancient Abode of Confucius, by Linqing
• Kangxi, a conference in Singapore, March 2009

No. 16, December 2008
The Heritage of Beijing Water
Guest editor: Dai Qing

• Thirsty Dragon at the Olympics, by Dai Qing
• The Goldfish Ponds of Old Beijing, oral history interview
• The Lost Rivers of the Forbidden City, oral history interview
• Vanishing Hai Dian, oral history interview
• Remembering Miyun Reservoir, oral history interview

• The Ming Ancestor Tomb, by Eric N. Danielson
• Hidden Mansions: Beijing from the Air, by Sang Ye and Geremie R. Barmé

• Chinese Art in the National Gallery, Prague, by Claire Roberts
• Chinese Visions: a Provocation, by Gloria Davies, Geremie R. Barmé and Timothy Cheek
• Book Review, The Palace of Established Happiness: Restoring a Garden in the Forbidden City

No. 14, June 2008
Beijing, the Invisible City

• 1948: How Peaceful was the Liberation of Beiping?, by Dai Qing
• Zhu Qiqian's Silver Shovel
• Beijing Underground
• A Beijing That Isn't (Part I)
• Beijing Reconstructs: Photographs by Lois Conner

• The Wenchuan Earthquake: Yunyan Temple
• Beijing, the City Made Manifest, by Kelly Layton
• Worrying China & New Sinology, by Geremie R. Barmé
• The Chinese Attitude Towards the Past, by Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)

• Fading Red Beijing, a review of Wang Di's Ego/Structure - Red Dwellings

No. 13, March 2008
Zhai 齋, the Scholar's Studio
Guest Editors: John Minford and Claire Roberts

• Morrison's Studio and Library, by Claire Roberts
• The Family Studio of a Ci Poet, by John Minford and Soong Shu-kong
• Singing with the Spring, by Wanyan Linqing
• Artist Sobriquets and Studio Names, by Claire Roberts
• Feng Zikai's Yuanyuan Hall

• Two Private Libraries: the Pavilion for Airing Books and the Tower of Crimson Clouds, by Duncan Campbell
• Bibliomania in Sino-cyberspace, by Gloria Davies
• Lionel Giles: Sinology, Old and New, by John Minford

• 'China' on Display, conference report by Francesca Dal Lago
• Review of Xu Yan, Zhongguo jiushuye bainian, Beijing: Kexue Chubanshe, 2005

No. 12, December 2007
Wangfu 王府, the Princely Mansions of Beijing

• Downward Spiral
• Prince Gong's Folly
• The Dark Lane by John Minford
• The Vicissitudes of Prince Chun's Mansion

• Chinese: Classical, Modern and Humane, by David Hawkes
• A Non-Princely Mansion
• Qianmen, Gateway to a Beijing Heritage, by Kelly Layton

• The Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center
• A Century of Li Keran, by Claire Roberts
• Books Hidden Away, a review by John Minford
• The Forbidden City

No. 11, September 2007
China and Korea: A Shared Heritage

• Shared Heritage Sites: The Mural Tombs of Gaogouli-Koguryo
• Duanwu: The Sino-korean Dragon Boat Races

• Printing: The Contested Invention
• China's Archaeological Oscars: The Top Ten Discoveries of 2006

• Contested domains: The Poetic Dialogue between a Ming Emperor and a Chosŏn Envoy
• Book Review: Hu's First Emperor

No. 10, June 2007
The Cultural Uniqueness of the North-west: Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia

• Cultural Heritage Properties of the North-West
• The Muslim Nations of the North-west
• Songs as Flowers

• Carpets for Kangxi
• The Heritage of Butter
• Genitalia, Totems and Painted Pottery

• Huang Binhong and the Palace Museum, by Claire Roberts
• The Murals of Qutan Si, by Bruce Doar

No. 9, March 2007
Heritage of the Grand Canal

• The Southern Expeditions of Emperors Kangxi and Qianlong
• Acquiring Gardens, by Bruce Doar

• Chinese Myths of the Deluge

• Review: Evelyn Rawski and Jessica Rawson, eds., China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, London: Royal Academy of Arts

No. 8, December 2006
Yuanming Yuan, the Garden of Perfect Brightness

• The Garden of Perfect Brightness, a life in ruins
• Gong Xiaogong and the Sacking of the Garden of Perfect Brightness
• On Stage & Screen
• Lois Conner: A Photographer in the Garden

• To Dig or Not to Dig: Qianling Mausoleum in the Spotlight Again
• The Lei Family Builders

• Jesuit Gravestones in Shanghai, by Jeremy Clarke, SJ
• Hedda Morrison's China, by Claire Roberts

No. 7, September 2006
China's Intangible Cultural Heritage

• A Tale of Two Lists: An Examination of the New Lists of Intangible Cultural Properties

• The Rehabilitation–and Appropriation–of Great Wall Mythology
• Living with the Past–an oral history interview by Sang Ye

• Review of Li Yun and Zhou Quangen, Zangxi (Tibetan drama), Zhejiang Renmin Chubanshe, 2005.

No. 6, June 2006
The Great Walls of China

• When Is a Wall a Great Wall?
• The Elm Tree Palisades: The Great Wall of the Northern Song

• Wolf Smoke Signals War
• Trapped behind Walls: Ming Writing on the Wall

• Dedicated to Great Wall Conservation: A Portrait of Three Chinese Scholars
• Bibliography: Recent Chinese Publications on the Great Wall
• Length Does Matter

No. 5, March 2006
China's Islamic Heritage

• Islamic Calligraphy in China, by Anthony Garnaut
• Beijing Halal, by Bruce Doar

• Hui Legends of The Companions of The Prophet, by Anthony Garnaut
• Restorations: Olympic Torch or Rural Touch?, by Anthony Garnaut
• Treasures from the Chu Valley of Kings, by Bruce Doar

• China's Islamic Communities Generate Local Histories: The Case of Dachang
• The Stones Of Zayton Speak, by Anthony Garnaut
• The Photographs of Claude L. Pickens

No. 4, December 2005
The 80th Anniversary of the Palace Museum

• The Transition from Palace to Museum: The Palace Museum's Prehistory and Republican Years

• Shaping the Palace Museum for Art History in the 1950s
• The Intelligence, Blood and Sweat of the Labouring Masses: The Palace Museum in the Cultural Revolution

• International Seminar on Qingming Shanghe Tu, Palace Museum, Beijing, 10-12 October 2005
• Review of Wang Guangyao, Zhongguo gudai guanyao zhidu (China's ancient system of official kilns)

No. 3, September 2005
Xinjiang

• The Tale of Two Museums in Xinjiang
• Toghraklek Villa: An Oasis among China's Museums

• Policing Revolution: Enter the Beijing Police Museum
• Emperor Han Wudi: Soap Operas as Substitutes for Politics
• The Renewed Search for Peking Man

• XXII International Congress of the History of Science, Beijing, 24-30 July, 2005
• Conference on Chinese Medicine: A Visual History

No. 2, June 2005
Intangible Cultural Heritage

• Litigation Surrounding Nakhi Ancient Music

• Shipping News: Zheng He's Sexcentenary
• Reconciling Tourism and Conservation: The Case of China's Historic Towns
• Controversy Surrounding the Archaeological Top Ten
• Listing of the Top Ten Excavations of 2004
• Collecting Old Family Letters
• Tianjin Museum Report

• Review Essay: The Treasures of Mawangdui, by Bruce Doar

No. 1, March 2005
China's New Commitment to Heritage

• Beijing: The Fate of the Old
• The Great Wall of China: Tangible, Intangible and Destructible
• Taming The Floodwaters: The High Heritage Price of Massive Hydraulic Projects

• Private Museums Threatened by Downtown Development
• China Maritime Silk Road Museum
Developments in Qinghai Archaeology

• Review of: Shi Anchang's Huotan yu Jisi Niaoshen (Fire Altars and Avian Deities as Sacrificial Officiants)