特刊收入四位中國文化研究所訪問教授論文,分別為：

The Xinzheng Bronzes and Their Funerary Contexts
Lothar von Falkenhausen

The Destruction of Immoral Temples in Qing China
Vincent Goossaert

The Rhetoric of Loyalty and Disloyalty in Five Dynasties China
Glen Dudbridge

Mobile Subjects: Women's Education and Transformations in Travel Writing in the Late Qing and Early Republic
Grace Fong

書前有中國文化研究所所長蘇芳淑教授〈前言〉,介紹此書出版緣由。