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well as the Silk Road from Chang'an in Northwest China to Central Asia, and the shipping route from Guangzhou to India superseded the aforesaid routes.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).

This article traces the etymology of the term ‘revolution’ as it developed in Việt Nam between the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It argues that the term was slow to catch on, and that activists who used it did so in often contradictory ways. The term's historical development complicated efforts to fix its meaning, and it was not until the later part of the 1920s that it came to be consolidated, in part through Hồ Chí Minh's publication of a short book entitled Đường Kách Mệnh (The road to revolution).

The electronic structure of Al3V vs its two different crystal structures (DO22 and Ll2) were investigated using local density total energy approach. The calculated results of the total energy showed that in Al3V the tetragonal DO22 phase is energetically favored as compared to the cubic Ll2 phase, the total energy in the former case is about 60 mRy/F.U. lower than that in the later case. The calculated lattice constant (a=3.72 Å, c=8.20 Å) is in fairly good agreement with experiment (a=3.778 Å, c=8.326 Å),and the bulk modulus (1.3 Mbar) is comparable with the experimental Young modulus (150 GPa) for Al3Ti. Furthermore, it is interesting to note that the density of states at EF in the tetragonal DO22 phase (0.14 states/eV-F.U.) is about one order magnitude smaller than that in the Ll2 phase (2.89 states/eV-F.U.). The electronic structure of Al3V seems to be fairly satisfactory in explaining its phase stability.

We study electron transport in the alloys of aluminum nitride and gallium nitride and alloys of indium nitride and gallium nitride. In particular, employing Monte Carlo simulations we determine the velocity-field characteristics associated with these alloys for various alloy compositions. We also determine the dependence of the low-field mobility on the alloy composition. We find that while the low-field mobility is a strong function of the alloy composition, the peak and saturation drift velocities exhibit a more mild dependence. Transient electron transport is also considered. We find that the velocity overshoot characteristic is a strong function of the alloy composition. The device implications of these results are discussed.

The archeological discoveries of the past several decades have radically expanded our knowledge of the Laozi and its context. Thus far, most research has focused on the various manuscript versions of the text itself, but there is another way in which archeological evidence has changed our knowledge of the Laozi: the discovery of several other cosmogonic texts, all dated to around the same time as the Guodian materials. While these texts share some concerns and assumptions, they also disagree and offer conflicting positions. Thus rather than assuming that anything sounding vaguely like the Laozi is saying the same thing in different words, we should be attuned to subtle differences on issues ranging from cosmogony to conceptions of action. We should also allow for the possibility that the Laozi itself incorporates diverse positions. This article analyzes one particular example, the role of “the one” (yi 一) in the Laozi. It argues that the five chapters discussing the one represent an attempt to incorporate what was originally a distinct position that took the one as the ultimate and had no concern with the interdependence of opposites. That position is expressed in the recently discovered Fanwu liuxing.

Intermetallic compounds containing actinide ions exhibit a broad spectrum of different physical phenomena at low temperatures. The latter include heavy quasiparticles, unconventional superconductivity and various forms of magnetic ordering. The complex and sometimes enigmatic properties of these compounds derive from the strong correlations among the 5f electrons. Previous model calculations suggested that the intra-atomic Hund’s rule-type correlations may lead to partial localization which is reflected e. g. in the co-existence of itinerant 5f-derived heavy quasiparticles and local magnetic excitations. The conjectured "dual nature" of 5f electrons which is closely related to the question of the 5f valence of the actinide ions is not directly probed by ground state properties and the low-energy excitations. Here we present microscopic calculations for core-level spectroscopy emphasizing the consequences of strong intra-atomic correlations of the 5f shell.

Wide bandgap semiconductors such as diamond and the III-V nitrides of GaN and AIN exhibit small or even negative electron affinities. Recent results have shown that surface treatments will modify the electron affinity of diamond to cause a negative electron affinity (NEA). Results are presented which correlate the field emission from single crystal p-type (boron doped) diamond with the electron affinity of the surfaces. The field emission is explored for nitrogen doped polycrystalline films. The threshold for field emission is significantly higher than from p-type diamond, and in fact, most surfaces are severely damaged during the emission measurement. High resolution photo-electron emission microscopy (PEEM) and field emission electron microscopy (FEEM) are employed to determine the relation of the emission to the surface morphology. PEEM results presented for diamond indicate relatively uniform emission with increased intensity at protruding crystallite edges. Results are presented for cold cathodes fabricated from epitaxial nitrides grown on 6H-SiC.

The use of electron paramagnetic resonance to investigate intrinsic defects in the III-V semiconductors is reviewed. Particular attention is given to lattice vacancies, antisites and their complexes in GaP, GaAs, and InP. The role of EPR in arriving at an understanding of these defects is emphasized and the interplay between experiment and theory is discussed.