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Twentieth-Century China
Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to introduce myself as the new editor of Twentieth-Century China (TCC). TCC is the official journal of the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (HSTCC). All members of HSTCC receive a subscription to the journal. It is available for subscription, as well, as part of Maney Publishing’s Chinese Studies e-journal bundle. For more information, see the websites of the HSTCC (http://hstcconline.org/) and of the journal itself (http://www.maneyonline.com/loi/tcc), where potential authors will find newly revised guidelines for submissions. An interview with me about my background and the journal is available here: http://maneychinesestudies.weebly.com/
A new issue of TCC (volume 39, no. 3) has just appeared and includes my editorial remarks on the content, which I post below. Please get in touch if you have any questions about the journal. The members of the Editorial Board and I hope that you will consider publishing your scholarship on twentieth-century Chinese history in TCC. Kristin Stapleton, University at Buffalo, SUNY ———- As I begin my service as editor of Twentieth-Century China with this issue, I feel honored to have the opportunity to contribute to this great journal and grateful to my immediate predecessor, James Carter, and the members of the Editorial Board for their support. One of my first scholarly articles appeared in volume 22 of the journal, back when it was called Republican China and edited by the late Stephen Averill. Working on revisions of my manuscript with Steve’s wise and kindly guidance was a great foundation for a lasting friendship, and it is a pleasure to pay tribute to him in these pages. This issue begins with an excursion into the forests of Yunnan in the early twentieth century. Mark Swislocki analyzes village policies toward forest conservation and shows that village collectivities had a rich understanding of the significance of forests. Their concerns differed from those of national- and provincial-level forestry officials and activists, who were in the process of creating new tools to try to shape forests, including legislation and educational initiatives. Swislocki effectively highlights the value of forest history as a pathway to study the dynamics of community- and state-building, as well as for understanding China’s environment. The next two articles explore aspects of culture before and after the year 1949. Weihong Du identifies a pivotal moment in the career of painter Xu Beihong that she argues had a transformative effect in the history of Chinese painting. Much struck by the comments of some of the Soviet citizens who came to see an exhibition of Chinese art that he took to Russia in 1934, Xu Beihong widened his painterly vision to take in working people and social struggle, creating works that helped constitute the canon of socialist art in the PRC. Guo Wu’s article focuses on the Socialist Education movement of the early 1960s and its aftermath, showing how ‘‘bottom-up’’ history took shape and created a standard type of ‘‘recalling bitterness’’narrative, ‘‘blurring the line between fact and fiction.’’ This development, Wu shows, is important for, inter alia, understanding the worldview of the Red Guard generation. The Korean War is the subject of the fourth article. Michael Sheng provides a detailed analysis of Mao’s thinking about participation in the war and war goals, marshaling evidence to show that his decisions were influenced not only by global and domestic events but by his own emotional reactions to these events. Sheng’s work contributes to the worldwide scholarly effort to penetrate the secrets of Cold War politics and assess how the personalities of its major actors affected its history. Our book review editor, Susan Fernsebner, has worked with reviewers to bring us assessments of four new books in the China field, on topics including life and folklore in a north China Catholic community, Zhang Taiyan’s Buddhism, opium consumption in republican Guangzhou, and contemporary society and culture in the PRC. The reviews are listed in the printed journal and available to all as a pdf online at http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/suppl/10.1179/1521538514Z.00000000049.
Kristin Stapleton (tccedit at buffalo.edu)
Editor, Twentieth-Century China
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA, Vol. 39, No. 3
Editorial Kristin Stapleton Twentieth-Century China,
SEEING THE FOREST FOR THE VILLAGE, NATION, AND PROVINCE: FORESTRY POLICY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY YUNNAN
By Mark Swislocki
A TURNING POINT FOR GUOHUA?: XU BEIHONG AND TRANSFORMATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SOCIALIST SPIRIT, 1933–1953
By Weihong Du
RECALLING BITTERNESS: HISTORIOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND MYTH IN MAOIST CHINA
By Guo Wu
MAO’S ROLE IN THE KOREAN CONFLICT: A REVISION
By Michael Sheng
Book Reviews
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 26, 2014
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