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Twentieth-Century China 40. 1
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the first issue of the 40th volume of Twentieth-Century China has been published.  The Table of Contents and editorial are appended below, as well as links to the articles. TCC is the official journal of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC), which welcomes new members. Information on membership is available here:
http://hstcconline.org/
Kristin Stapleton Chief editor, Twentieth-Century China
Twentieth-Century China Volume: 40, Number: 1 (January 2015)
The above issue is now available online at: http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/tcc/40/1
The table of contents for this issue is listed below.
EDITORIAL Kristin Stapleton Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 1-2.
WHAT LITERATI TALKED ABOUT WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT MEMORY: COMMEMORATING RESISTANCE TO THE TAIPING IN NANJING’S YU GARDEN, 1900–1911 Chuck Wooldridge Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 3-24.
THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY IN REVOLUTIONARY CHINA BEFORE AND AFTER 1949: THE CASE OF WEI BAQUN Xiaorong Han Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 25-47.
BETWEEN STATE AND SERVICE INDUSTRY: GROUP AND COLLECTIVE WEDDINGS IN COMMUNIST SHANGHAI, 1949–1956 Jennifer E. Altehenger Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 48-68.
A HUMANIST ANALYSIS ON PERIODICALS OF CHINESE MEDICINE FROM THE LATE QING AND REPUBLICAN PERIODS Wang Youpeng Translated by David Luesink Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 69-78.
Book Reviews Twentieth-Century China, Vol. 40, No. 1: 79-79. 
Editorial Shifting understandings of the past, revolution, and ritual are central concerns of the three research articles in this issue. Chuck Wooldridge starts us off with a discussion of a literati community in Nanjing in the early twentieth century. As the political and cultural order of the Qing faced increasingly sharp challenges from external rivals and internal critics, the act of gathering in a garden to commemorate resistance to the Taiping gained a new kind of significance. Via close readings of commemorative essays and poetry, Wooldridge explores the conceptualization of memory as an act of moral authority among Nanjing’s late Qing cultural elite.
Xiaorong Han examines how differently the life and work of rural activist Wei Baqun (1894–1932) has been interpreted over the course of the past century. Leader of peasant revolts in Guangxi Province in the 1920s, Wei had an uneasy relationship with the established political parties of the time. After his death, he began to be acclaimed by the Communist Party as a hero of the people. After the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, he gained martyr status. Han’s detailed analysis of archival and other evidence shows both the nature of Wei’s complicated early relationship with the Nationalists and the Communists and the reasons for his postmortem elevation in status by the latter.
Our third article takes us into the Shanghai wedding industry in the early 1950s. Jennifer Altehenger’s work in the municipal archives allows her to dissect the ways in which commercial wedding shops rebranded their businesses as they learned about the cultural goals of the new regime. Meanwhile, officials conducted their own debates about how to standardize wedding ceremonies and induce people to register their marriages. Together, for their own reasons, commercial firms and government units promoted group or collective weddings. The response among the people of Shanghai, however, was lukewarm. Altehenger’s study advances our knowledge of how the difficult task of cultural and economic transformation was managed in China’s biggest city in the early years of the PRC.
Twentieth-Century China  aims to encourage the crossing of linguistic scholarly borders, as well as the broader perspective on history that such border crossing can bring. Translation of scholarly work and guides to new resources around the world are both important parts of this effort. In this issue we are pleased to present David Luesink’s translation of an essay by Wang Youpeng on the compilation and publication of a large collection of periodicals on Chinese medicine from the late Qing and republican eras. Wang’s essay offers us a window into how such major projects get off the ground and a sense of just how much work went into this one. The rapidly growing field of the history of medicine in China will be sure to benefit from the efforts of these scholars. The TCC editors thank editorial board member Robert Culp for bringing this essay to our attention and helping us see it into print.
Three new books in the field of cultural studies receive attention in our book review section, including a study of how Russian literature and culture were received in twentieth-century China, an account of the significance of the game weiqi  (also known by its Japanese name, Go) in China past and present, and an ethnography of a community of artists in southern China who make their living painting replicas of the great works of European art. The reviews are listed in the printed journal and available to all as a pdf online at:
www.maneyonline.com/doi/suppl/10.1179/1521538514Z.00000000055.
by denton.2 at osu.edu on December 19, 2014
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