MCLC: Cross-Currents 2.2

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Keila Diehl <crosscurrents at berkeley.edu>
Subject: Cross-Currents 2.2
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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 2.2 available

 
Volume 2, No. 2 of “Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review”
is now available through U. Hawaii Press
(http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8886-cross-currents-east-asian-history-cul
ture-review.aspx?journal=1&).

 
The November 2013 print issue, guest edited by Wen-hsin Yeh (UC Berkeley)
includes articles on these three themes:
 

(1) Urban Chinese Living

 
“Moralized Hygiene and Nationalized Body: Anti-Cigarette Campaigns in
China on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution” by Wennan Liu, Institute of
Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

 
“Treaty-Port English in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai: Speakers, Voices, and
Images” by Jia Si, Fudan University

 
“Representing and Coping with Early Twentieth-Century Chongqing: “Guide
Songs” as Maps, Memory Cells, and Means of Creating Cultural Imagery” by
Igor Chabrowski, University of Oxford

 
(2) Law, Politics, and Society in Republican China

 
“Voter Education: Provincial Autonomy and the Transformation of Chinese
Election Law, 1920–1923” by Joshua Hill, Ohio University

 
“Redefining the Moral and Legal Roles of the State in Everyday Life: The
New Life Movement in China in the Mid-1930s” by Wennan Liu, Institute of
Modern History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

 
“Unacceptable but Indispensable: Opium Law and Regulations in Guangdong,
1912–1936” by Xavier Paulès, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

 
(3) Bordering China: Modernity and Sustainability

“Ecologies of Empire: From Qing Cosmopolitanism to Modern Nationalism” by
Peter C. Perdue, Yale University

“Between China and Nepal: Trans-Himalayan Trade and the Second Life of
Development” by Martin Saxer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

 
“Past and Present Resource Disputes in the South China Sea: The Case of
Reed Bank” by Micah S. Muscolino, Georgetown University
 
“The Five Buddha Districts on the Yunnan-Burma Frontier: A Political
System Attached to the State” by Jianxiong Ma, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology

 
This issue also features four review essays:

 
Dana Buntrock (UC Berkeley) on Fujimori Terunobu no Chashitsu Gaku: Nihon
no Kyokushō Kūkan no Nazo [Fujimori Terunobu’s tearoom studies: The riddle
of Japan’s smallest space] by Fujimori Terunobu and Making Tea, Making
Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin Surak.

 
Haydon Cherry (North Carolina State U) on Cauldron of Resistance, Ngo Dinh
Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam by Jessica Chapman and
Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South
Vietnam by Edward Miller.

 
Erich DeWald (U Campus Suffolk) on The Birth of Vietnamese Political
Journalism: Saigon, 1916–1930, by Philippe M. F. Peycam and Passion,
Betrayal and Revolution in Colonial Saigon: The Memoirs of Bao Luong, by
Hue-Tam Ho Tai.

 
Xiaobing Tang (U Michigan) on Youth Culture in China: From Red Guards to
Netizens and The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History by Paul Clark.

 
“Cross-Currents” offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging
trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and
culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking
academic communities. A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of
Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian
Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS),
“Cross-Currents” includes scholarship on material from the sixteenth
century to the present day that has significant implications for current
models of understanding East Asian history and culture. Embedded in a
web-based platform with functions for collaboration, discussion, and an
innovative editing and publishing process, the journal uses new
technologies to facilitate a dialogue among East Asia scholars around the
world that is enhanced by audio-visual and multilingual capabilities. The
semiannual print issues of “Cross-Currents”(U Hawaii Press) feature
content selected from the peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal. An
editorial board consisting of established scholars in Asia and North
America provides oversight of the journal.  For information about
submitting articles and other content to “Cross-Currents,” please visit
http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu <http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/>
or contact the Managing Editor.

 
Submitted by:  Keila Diehl, Ph.D. Managing Editor, “Cross-Currents: East
Asian History and Culture Review,” Institute of East Asian Studies, UC
Berkeley http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu