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New China-Related Content: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (December 2017 online issue):

Articles

Special Issue:  “Binding Maritime China: States, Smugglers, and Interlopers”

Introduction to “Binding Maritime China: States, Smugglers, and Interlopers”
Guest editors Eugenio Menegon (Boston University), Philip Thai (Northeastern University), and Xing Hang (Brandeis University)

“Oceanus Resartus”; or, Is Chinese Maritime History Coming of Age?
Leonard Blussé, Leiden University

Interlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, 1700-1823
Eugenio Menegon, Boston University

Interlopers, Rogues, or Cosmopolitans? Wu Jianzhang and Early Modern Commercial Networks on the China Coast
Peter C. Perdue, Yale University

The Fujitsuru Mystery: Translocal Xiamen, Japanese Expansionism, and the Asian Cocaine Trade, 1900-1937
Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi

State and Smuggling in Modern China: The Case of Guangzhouwan/Zhanjiang
Steven Pieragastini, Boston College

Review Essays

“Real Men Die Wrapped in Horsehide” and Other Tales of Modern Military Heroism
Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara

Colin Jaundrill. Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016.
Nicolas Schillinger. The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers. New York: Lexington Books, 2016.

Disputes About Disputes: Understanding the South China Sea
Bill Hayton, Chatham House

Steve Chan. China’s Troubled Waters: Maritime Disputes in Theoretical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Do Thanh Hai. Vietnam and the South China Sea: Politics, Security and Legality, New York: Routledge, 2017.

Taking Asian Fascisms Seriously
Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona

Maggie Clinton. Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925­­–1937. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
Reto Hofmann. The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.

Overcoming Japan’s Imperial Legacies: A Review Essay
Sherzod Muminov, University of East Anglia

Yukiko Koga. Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Hiro Saito. The History Problem: The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.

— Keila Diehl, Ph.D. Managing Editor

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