On the fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize through the generosity of her colleagues, students, and friends, the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Prize.

The Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project was a five-year state-sponsored project, carried out between 1995–2000, to determine an absolute chronology of the Western Zhou dynasty and approximate chronologies of the Xia and Shang dynasties. At the end of the five years, the Project issued a provisional report entitled Report on the 1996–2000 Provisional Results of the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project: Brief Edition detailing its results. A promised full report was finally published in 2022: Report on the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project. Although numerous discoveries in the more than twenty years between the publications of the Brief Edition and the Report have revealed that the Project's absolute chronology of the Western Zhou is fundamentally flawed, and some of the problems are acknowledged by the Report, still the Report maintains the Project's chronology without any correction. In the review, I present four of these discoveries, from four different periods of the Western Zhou, discussing their implications for the Project's chronology. I conclude with a call for some sort of authoritative statement acknowledging the errors in the report.

This article summarizes relevant historical developments involving Taiwan and Okinawa in Asia-Pacific multilateral relations over the longue durée, and suggests future prospects.

1. Both Taiwan and the Ryukyus are within the Kuroshio (Black Tide) Current Civilization Zone (from approximately the beginning of the 3rd Century): At that time, crops such as cassava and yams traveled northbound with the Kuroshio Currents, which ran from the Philippines to Taiwan and the Ryukyus to Kyushu, while crops such as millet in northern parts of South East Asia traveled to Taiwan via the South Sea and further traveled to the Ryukyus and Kyushu. Together with the path of rice from south of China's Yangtze River via Korea to Kyushu, Japan these were two important sea-borne cultural exchange paths in the Asia-Pacific. However, by the 3rd Century, the direct route from south of the Yangzi to central Japan, as well as the Silk Road from Chang'an in Northwest China to Central Asia, and the shipping route from Guangzhou to India superseded the aforesaid routes. As a result, Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands became isolated on the international stage for about one thousand years (Ts'ao, 1988).

Forms of International Agreement — Treaty as Distinguished from Exchange of Declarations.

Belligerent Occupation — Recognition of Acts of Occupant.

Recognition of Acts of Foreign States — Recognition of Acts of Military Occupant — Appointment of Custodian.

Treaties — Effects — International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Plaintiff company seeking to invoke relevant provisions — Article 2.1(a) of Convention — Applicability of Convention — Event giving rise to claim occurring before Convention entering into force in Australia — Whether Convention having retrospective application — Interpretation — Construction — Customary international law — Article 28 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Act 1989 giving effect in Australian law to International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Section 6 of 1989 Act — Relevance of date of entry into force

Sea — Sea-bed — Damaged cable — Limitation of liability for maritime claims — Municipal law — International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Plaintiff company seeking to invoke relevant provisions of Convention — Applicability — The law of Australia

Treaties — Operation of — Application to Non- Metropolitan Territories.

Aliens — Treatment of — Cautio judicatum solvi — Treaties — Operation and Enforcement of — Application to Non-Metropolitan Territories — Application to Algeria of Treaties Ratified by France

Recognition — Of Governments — Effects of Non-Recognition — Holland and the Soviet Government — Absence of Diplomatic Intercourse — Locus standi in judicio of Unrecognised Governments in Civil Matters

The individual in international law — Human rights and freedoms — European Convention for Protection of — The Constitution of Cyprus — Right to a hearing before a court — Right to present a case to a court — Registration and enforcement of judgment obtained abroad — The law of Cyprus.

Treaties — Effects — International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Applicability — Event giving rise to claim occurring before Convention entering into force in Australia — Whether Convention having retrospective application — Interpretation — Construction — Customary international law — Article 28 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Section 6 of Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Act 1989 giving effect in Australian law to International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Whether Act retrospective in its operation

Sea — Sea-bed — Damaged cable — Limitation of liability for maritime claims — Municipal law — International Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 — Applicability — The law of Australia

Jurisdiction — National Waters — Collision between Foreign Vessels — The Law of the United States.

Jurisdiction — Territorial — Proceedings in two jurisdictions — Application in courts of New South Wales for injunction to restrain proceedings in the United States — Comity — Whether Australian court empowered to restrain proceedings in the courts of another State — The law of Australia