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Pacific Rim Reports are occasional papers series produced by the Center for the Pacific Rim and its Ricci Institute. They provide a forum for the discussion of significant topics and issues, presenting critical issues facing the Pacific Rim to a wide international audience and to domestic leaders in business, public policy, and academia. The following is a list of the Ricci Institute's special editions of the Pacific Rim Reports. (Adobe Acrobat Reader 6 is required in order to view some of the following files.)

No. 43	"Medicine and Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange (1644-ca.1950) " Keynote Lecture by Marta E. Hanson, Ph.D. and Symposium Summation by Charlotte Furth, Ph.D.
No. 32	"The Chinese Rites Controversy: A Long Lasting Controversy in Sino-Western Cultural History" by Paul A. Rule, Ph.D.
No. 29	"Nourishing the Spirit: The Search for Meaning in Contemporary China" by James D. Whitehead, Ph.D. and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Ph.D.
No. 27	"Of the Mind and the Eye: Jesuit Artists in the Forbidden City in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" - "Introduction: Of the Mind and the Eye" by Lauren Arnold and "Agreeable yet Useful": Notes on Jesuitical Visual Culture during the Seventeenth Century by Elisabetta Corsi, Ph.D.
No. 24	Nourishing the Spirit: Social Change and Spiritual Development in China Today (Issue 2) a roundtable discussion conducted by Lizhu Fan, Ph.D., Peter Ng, Ph.D., Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Ph.D., and James D. Whitehead and moderated by Marsha Vande Berg, Ph.D.
No. 23	"Home Afar": The Life of Central European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai During World War II by Péter Vámos, Ph.D.
No. 19	Nourishing the Spirit: Social Change and Spiritual Development in China Today (Issue 1)- "Social Change and Spiritual Development in China Today" by Richard P. Madsen, Ph.D.; "Three Approaches to Spiritual Values" by Fenggang Yang, Ph.D.; "Popular Religion in Shenzhen" by Lizhu Fan, Ph.D.; "Nourishing the Spirit in China Today" by Diane Obenchain, Ph.D.; and "The Three-Self (Protestant) Church and Chinese Christians Who do not Go to Church" by Zongkun Liu
No. 17	"Christianity in China: Growing on Holy Ground" by Paul A. Rule, Ph.D. and "Wisdom for the Journey: Historical Perspectives on the Inculturation of Christianity in China" by Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Ph.D. Keynote addresses from the 18th National Catholic China Conference.
No. 12	China and Christianity: "Burdened Past, Hopeful Future" - "Chinese Higher Education and the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia" by David W. Vikner and "The Henry Luce Foundation: A Century of Service to Christianity and Higher Education in China" by H. Christopher Luce