Cross-Currents 17

New Online Content:  Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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December 2015 e-journal (No. 17)

Co-editors’ Note to Readers

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

Sundered Voices, Streets of Privilege: Lived-in Intricacies of the Japanese Colonial Empire in Korea and Manchuria

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.

Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
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