Cover: portrait of Fr. J. Schall, S.J., in his mandarin robes as director of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy (Qintianjian). Portrait drawn by G.A. Wolfgang and appeared in Schall’s Historica relatio de ortu et progressu fidei orthodoxæ in regno chinensi per missionarios Sociatatis Jesu ab anno 1581 usque as annum 1669. Ratisbon (Regensburg), 1672.
Necrology of Fr. J. Dehergne (1903-1990); Necrology of Fr. J. Sebes (1915-1990).
Li Lanqin 李蘭琴: Tang Ruowang jianlun 湯若望簡論 (A Brief Account of Adam Schall). -- L.F. Pfister: Some new dimensions in the works of James Legge (1815-1897)-Part I. -- Announcements, News. In Memoriam: Fr. J. Spae. Reviews: The Question of Hu, by Jonathan D. Spence. Reviewer: Knud Lundbaek. Christianity in China: a scholar’s guide to resources in the libraries and archives of the United States, by Archie Crouch. Reviewer: D.E. Mungello. Chinese Hells: the Peking Temple of Eighteen Hells and Chinese conceptions of Hell, by Anne Swann Goodrich. Reviewed by D.E. Mungello.
The article by Ms. Li Lanqin 李蘭琴: Tang Ruowang jianlun 湯若望簡論 (A Brief Account of Adam Schall) first appeared in: Shijie lishi 世界歷史 (Beijing) 1 (1989).