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).

Cover: Magnified section of the etching “The Raising of the Siege at the Black River (1758)” which is reproduced in full on pages 28-29. The etching is made from a drawing by the Jesuit painter G. Castiglione. (See Hao Zhenhua article).
K. Lundbaek: Liu Ning 劉凝 (Er Zhi [Erzhi 二至]), a Chinese Christian author of the 17th-18th century. -- N. Standaert: The Jesuit presence in China (1580-1773): a statistical approach. -- Hao Zhenhua 郝鎮華: Lang Shining Zhongguo Xiyuzhantu de shishi ji yiyi 郎世寧中國西域戰圖的史實及意義 (The Historical Circumstances and Significance of Castiglione’s War Paintings of the Qianlong emperor’s Campaign against the Dzungars in the Northwestern Border Region). -- L. Pfister: Some new dimensions in the study of the works of James Legge (1815-1897) - Part II. -- In memoriam: Giorgio Melis. -- New Publications: Coming Out of the Middle Ages, by Zhu Weizheng. Reviewer: Thomas H.. Lee. -- Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693): the Man Who Brougy China to Europe, ed. Jerome Heyndrickx. Reviewer: Min-sin Chen. Leibniz Korrespondiert mit China: der Briefwechsel des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz mit Chinamissionaren, 1689-1714), ed. Rita Widmaier. Only the Beginning: the Passionsists in China, 1921-1931, by Caspar Caulfield. -- Rawlinson, the Recorder, and China’s Revolution, by John Lang Rawlinson. Reviewer: D.E. Mungello.
Dates uncertain for Liu Ning: Liu Ning 劉凝, ca. 1658-1738 (Lundbaek); 17th cent. (LC); ca. 1625-ca. 1715 (Standaert, Handbook). [suigong 歲貢, i.e. 貢生 1677]