Table of Contents:

Takao Abé, The 17th Century Jesuit Missionary Reports on Hokkaido

Chen, Sanping, From Mulan to Unicorn

Bret Hinsch, Reading Lienüzhuan (Biographies of Woman) Through the Life of Liu Xiang

Ma Li, Legitimacy as a Limit of Absolute Power: The Case of Zhu Yuanzhang

Narasingha P. Sil, An Anatomy of Colonial Penetration and Resistance in the Eighteenth Century: The Odyssey of Siraj-ud-daula and Tipu Sultan

Hasan M. al-Naboodah, Sahib al-Khabar: Secret Agents and Spies. During the First Century of Islam

Igor de Rachewiltz, A Faulty Reading in the Safe Conduct of Abaya

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