New Online Content: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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December 2015 e-journal (No. 17)
Articles
The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture
Maggie Greene, Montana State University
The Afterlives of Korean An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism
Inhye Han, Ewha Womans University
Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore
Karen M. Teoh, Stonehill College
Imagining Urban Community: Contested Geographies and Parallax Urban Dreams on Cheju Island, South Korea
Tommy Tran, University of California, Los Angeles
Review Essays
Kyu Hyun Kim, University of California Davis
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 296 pp. $90 (cloth); $25 (paper).
Emer O’Dwyer, Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 528 pp. $60 (cloth).
Japan in Maritime Asia: Security, Commerce, and Sovereignty
Philip Thai, Northeastern University
Catherine L. Phipps, Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Noell Wilson, Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 258 pp. $39.95 (cloth).
Photo Essay
The Relics of Modern Japan’s First Foreign War in Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwan, 1874–2015
Curated by Paul D. Barclay, Lafayette College
Readings from Asia
The Question of Self-Governance
Tomiyama Ichirō, Doshisha University
Toriyama Atsushi 鳥山淳. Okinawa: Kichishakai no kigen to sōkoku 沖縄：基地社会の起源と相克 [Okinawa: Origin and conflict in a military base society]. Tokyo: Keisō Shobō 勁草書房, 2013.
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Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
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