The latest issue of T’oung Pao has come out, with several religion-related articles, including an unpublished piece by the late Robert van Gulik! Please read below for the table of contents.

Articles

Beyond Authenticity: Genre, Rhetoric, and the Iterability of Shangshu Speeches

Zhuming Yao

Repetitions Within and Between Chapters in the Xunzi 荀子: Traces of Liu Xiang’s 劉向 Editorial Work

Meihui Liu

Informal Storytelling and Social Networks: A Paratextual Reading of the Records of Miraculous Recompense

Manling Luo

Tankuang and His Work in Tibetan Translation: Revisiting IOL Tib J 26 and the Mahādeva Narrative

Channa Li

The Life and Works of the Monk Donggao, a Chinese Chan Master in Japan

Robert van Gulik (高羅佩)

Book Review

A Journal of My Misgivings: Liang Yusheng, Sima Qian, and the History of Qin, by Jeffrey Riegel

Hans van Ess

Structures of Governance in Song Dynasty China, 960-1279 CE , by Charles Hartman

Christian Lamouroux

Un taoïste n’a pas d’ombre. Mémoires d’un ethnologue en Chine, by Patrice Fava

John Lagerwey