Outputs (5)

The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai (2020)
Journal Article
Chan, P. (2020). The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 263-296. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902010

This article looks at artists’ engagement with artistic activities carried out in wartime Shanghai, with a particular focus on guohua (lit., ‘national painting’). Drawing on primary sources such as archival materials, diaries, paintings, magazines an... Read More about The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai.

From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized (2020)
Journal Article
Tsang, S. (2020). From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized. Twentieth-century China, 45(3), 351-368. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2020.0029

This paper shows that while China now attaches geostrategic importance to Taiwan, it has not always done so. It has only accorded such significance to Taiwan in the post-Mao era. By reviewing how Taiwan became a Japanese colony, how it came under the... Read More about From Japanese Colony to Sacred Chinese Territory: Taiwan’s Geostrategic Significance to China Historicized.

Picturing Mount Yandang: The Travel Albums and Landscape Aesthetics of Yu Jianhua (1895-1979) (2020)
Journal Article
Chan, P. (2020). Picturing Mount Yandang: The Travel Albums and Landscape Aesthetics of Yu Jianhua (1895-1979). Burlington magazine, 162(1411), 840-849

Gender and Work in Contemporary China (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Sun, N., & Zhong, Y. (in press). Gender and Work in Contemporary China. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199920082-0178

This bibliography includes journal articles, books, and reports, both in English and Chinese, examining the processes of transformation of gender and work in both urban and rural China. Topics include urban laid-off workers, service workers, sex work... Read More about Gender and Work in Contemporary China.

The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice (2020)
Book
Mou, Y. (2020). The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509913053

Drawing on insights from the author's own empirical data obtained from systematic observation of the daily routines within Chinese criminal justice institutions, this ground-breaking book examines the functional deficiency of the criminal justice sys... Read More about The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice.