{"title":"The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures by Justin M. Jacobs (review)","authors":"Xue Zhang","doi":"10.1353/tcc.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42116,"journal":{"name":"Twentieth-Century China","volume":"46 1","pages":"E-32 - E-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42078468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reappraising Maoism from the Bottom Up","authors":"Steven Pieragastini","doi":"10.1353/tcc.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Two recent books by Felix Wemheuer and Yang Kuisong constitute important pieces of a broader shift toward exploring the Maoist period at the grassroots level, from the bottom up, and contribute to ongoing debates on the nature, periodization, and legacies of Maoism.This essay discusses the following works. Felix Wemheuer. A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 331 pp. $79.99 (cloth), $29.99 (paper). | Yang Kuisong. Eight Outcasts: Social and Political Marginalization in China under Mao. Translated by Gregor Benton and Ye Zhen. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 285 pp. $85.00 (cloth), $39.95 (paper).","PeriodicalId":42116,"journal":{"name":"Twentieth-Century China","volume":"46 1","pages":"316 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49213390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capital, Empire, Letter: Romanization in Late Qing China","authors":"Uluğ Kuzuoğlu","doi":"10.1353/tcc.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the history of the Roman alphabet in the late Qing empire (1637–1912). Following the opening of treaty ports to Western capital in the midnineteenth century, missionaries and diplomats who entered the Qing territories began to romanize various local languages. By the end of the nineteenth century, more than 20 languages had been romanized, which had an indelible impact on the politics of language and writing in China in the following decades. This article examines the origins of romanization in nineteenth-century China by situating it within a larger history of capitalism, imperialism, and the industrial printing press. Exploring the ideological and material dimensions of alphabetization, it contends that the Roman alphabet imposed a new epistemology of writing on China, which generated novel contradictions regarding language politics––contradictions that are still extant today.","PeriodicalId":42116,"journal":{"name":"Twentieth-Century China","volume":"46 1","pages":"223 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42667185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II by Kelly A. Hammond (review)","authors":"Tatiana Linkhoeva","doi":"10.1353/tcc.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42116,"journal":{"name":"Twentieth-Century China","volume":"46 1","pages":"E-28 - E-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"War and Revolution: Chinese Society during the 1940s","authors":"Joseph W. Esherick","doi":"10.1353/tcc.2001.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2001.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42116,"journal":{"name":"Twentieth-Century China","volume":"27 1","pages":"1 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/tcc.2001.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45547143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}