New China-Related Content: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (September 2017 online issue)
Articles
Special Issue: “Naming Modernity: Rebranding and Neologisms during China’s Interwar Global Moment in Eastern Asia”
Introduction to “Naming Modernity: Rebranding and Neologisms during China’s Interwar Global Moment in Eastern Asia”
Guest editor, Anna Belogurova (Freie Universität Berlin)
Li Yujie and the Rebranding of the White Lotus Movement
David Ownby (Université de Montréal)
China as the Leader of the Small and Weak: The Ruoxiao Nations and Guomindang Nationalism
Craig A. Smith (Australian National University)
Networks, Parties, and the “Oppressed Nations”: The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926–1935
Anna Belogurova (Freie Universität Berlin)
New Revolutionary Agenda: The Interwar Japanese Left on the “Chinese Revolution”
Tatiana Linkhoeva (New York University)
“Awakening Asia”: Korean Student Activists in Japan, The Asian Kunglun, and Asian Solidarity, 1910–1923
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus (Goethe University Frankfurt)
From Revolutionary Culture to Original Culture and Back: “On New Democracy” and the Kampucheanization of Marxism-Leninism, 1940–1965
Matthew Galway (University of British Columbia)
Review Essays
Encroaching the Frontier: Boundaries and Diaspora in Ming and Qing China
David Faure (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ng Chin-keong. Boundaries and Beyond: China’s Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016.
Steven B. Miles. Upriver Journeys: Diaspora and Empire in Southern China, 1570-1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017.
The Olympic Games: Showcases of Internationalism and Modernity in Asia
Robin Kietlinski (City University of New York – La Guardia Community College)
Stefan Huebner. Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2016.
Jessamyn Abel. The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.
Contesting Border/Frontier Studies in China and Beyond: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Zomia as a Metaphor
Jinba Tenzin (National University of Singapore)
Megan Bryson. Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016.
Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton. Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Readings from Asia
Where Anthropology Meets History—A Review of Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey, by Helen F. Siu
May Bo Ching (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Submitted by:
Keila Diehl, Ph.D.
Managing Editor
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