The Journal publishes quality reviews of books in both Chinese and Western (primarily English) languages, in the area of Chinese and comparative philosophy (all reviews are published in English). We appreciate your recommendations of important books recently published in this area that deserve to be reviewed. If you have published your own book and would like to have it considered for review in our journal, please have your publisher send a free copy to our book review editor. If you are willing to review books for our journal, please contact our respective book review editors. Let us know if you have a specific book to review or want to review any book we receive.

All books published in Chinese should be sent and all matters pertaining to reviews of such books should be directed to: Dr. Bai Tongdong, Department of Philosophy, Xavier University, 5 University Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4433; e-mail: bai@xavier.edu; all books published in English should be sent and all matters related to reviews of such books should be directed to: Dr. Xiao Yang, Department of Philosophy, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022-9623; e-mail: xiaoy@kenyon.edu.

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The following Chinese books are scheduled to be reviewed in future issues of our journal. Those who are interested in reviewing any of these books please contact Dr. Bai Tongdong, our Chinese book review editor. A free copy of the book to be reviewed will be provided.

2、胡偉希﹕《轉識成智﹕清華學派與二十世紀中國哲學》。上海﹕華東師大出版社，2005年。

3、鄒詩鵬﹕《生存論研究》。上海﹕上海人民出版社。2005年。

4、李明輝﹕《儒家視野下的政治思想》。臺北﹕臺灣大學出版中心，2005年。

5、俞宣孟、何錫蓉（編）﹕《探根尋源﹕新一倫中西哲學比較研究論集》。上海﹕上海譯文出版社，2005年。

6、顧紅亮﹕《現代中國平民化人格話語》。上海﹕華東師範大學出版社，2005年。

7、顧紅亮、劉曉虹﹕《想象個人﹕中國個人觀的現代轉形》。上海﹕上海古籍出版社，2006年。

8、張學智﹕《明代哲學史》。北京﹕北京大學出版社。2003年。

10、劉宗迪：《失落的天書：《山海經》與古代華夏世界觀》

11、劉梁劍﹕《天、人、際﹕對王船山的形而上學闡明》。上海．上海人民出版社，2007年。

12、劉述先﹕《論儒家哲學的三個大時代》。香港﹕中文大學出版社，2008年。

13、李幼蒸﹕《仁學解釋學﹕孔孟倫理學結構分析》。北京﹕中國人民大學出版社，2004年。

The following books in English are scheduled to be reviewed in future issues of our journal. Those who are interested in reviewing any of these books please contact Dr. Xiao Yang, our English book review editor. A free copy of the book to be reviewed may be provided.

1. James Behuniak, Jr., Mencius on Becoming Human (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004).

2. Ewing Chinn and Henry Rosemont, Jr. (ed.), Metaphilosophy and Chinese Thought: Interpreting David Hall (New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2005).

3. * Kim-Chong Chong, Early Confucian Ethics (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2006).

4. Kim-Chong Chong, Sor-hoon Tan, and C. L. Ten (ed.), The Moral Circle and the Self: Chinese and Western Perspectives (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005).

5. * Steve Coutinho, Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy: Vagueness, Transformation and Paradox (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

6. A. S. Cua, Human Nature, Ritual, and History: Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

7. Corinne H. Dale (ed), Chinese Aesthetics and Literature: A Reader (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004).

8. Halvor Eifring (ed.), Love and Emotions in Traditional Chinese Literature (Leiden, Brills, 2004).

9. Paul R. Goldin, After Confucius: Studies in Early Chinese Philosophy (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

10. Ming Dong Gu, Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005).

11. François Jullien, In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics, trans. Paula M. Varsano (New York: Zone Books, 2004).

12. * Janghee Lee, Xunzi and Early Chinese Naturalism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004).

13. Thomas H. C. Lee (ed.), The New and the Multiple: Sung Sense of the Past (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004).

14. Mark Edward Lewis, The Construction of Space in Early China (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006).

15. G. E. R. Lloyd, Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

16. Torbjorn Loden, Rediscovering Confucianism: A Major Philosophy of Life in East Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

17. * Christopher Lupke, The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005).

18. * John Makeham, New Confucianism: A Critical Examination (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

19. Roman Malek, Verschmelzung der Horizonte: Mozi und Jesus (Leiden: Brills, 2004).

20. Thomas Michael, The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005).

21. Bo Mu, Davidson's Philosophy and Chinese Philosophy: Constructive Engagement (Leiden: Brills, 2005).

22. Donald J. Munro, A Chinese Ethics for the New Century (Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2005).

23. Michael Puett, To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).

24. Masayuki Sato, The Confucian Quest for Order: The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi (Leiden: Brills, 2003).

25. Thomas W. Selover, Hsieh Liang-tso and the Analects of Confucius: Humane Learning as a Religious Quest (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

26. Edward L. Shaughnessy, Rewriting Early Chinese Texts (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006).

27. Ge Ling Shang, Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006).

28. Kwong-loi Shun and David Wong (ed.), Confucian Ethics: A Comparative Study of Self, Autonomy, and Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

29. Michel Strickmann, Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia (ed.) Bernard Faure (Sanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).

30. J. Marshall Unger, Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodies Meaning (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003).

31. Rudolf Wagner, A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003).

32. Anthony C. Yu, State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2005).

33. Brook Ziporyn, Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 2004).