Project MUSE®: Twentieth-Century China - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Twentieth-Century China.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1975) through current issueLatest Articles: Twentieth-Century ChinaTWOProject MUSE®Twentieth-Century China1940-50651521-5385Latest articles in Twentieth-Century China. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Manchurian rural society: the mobility of labor and farm household management by Kanno Tomohiro (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988382
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Kanno Tomohiro's Manshū no nōson shakai: ryūdō suru rōdō-ryoku to nōka keiei (満洲の農村社会: 流動する労働力と農家経営 Manchurian rural society: the mobility of labor and farm household management) is an important contribution to our understanding of the rural world in Northeast Asia during the twentieth century. For many years, scholars in English, Chinese, and Japanese academic circles have maintained a strong interest in the state of Manchukuo. As an artificial state created by the Japanese Empire under the principle of "harmony of the five races" (五族協和 gozoku kyōwa), it represented the tension between Japanese imperialism and a form of idealistic nationalism. It also offered a potential, though ultimately unrealized, path for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallManchurian rural society: the mobility of labor and farm household management by Kanno Tomohiro (review)2026-04-22text/htmlen-USManchurian rural society: the mobility of labor and farm household management by Kanno Tomohiro (review)2026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®125492026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22Editorial
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988383
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The second installment of Twentieth-Century China's series Looking Back: Reexamining China's Twentieth Century from the Twenty-First Century starts off our May 2026 issue with Professor Sherman Cochran's essay, "A Bridge Between China and the West: Zhang Zhongli and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences." Through the story of his friendship and collaborations with historian Zhang Zhongli in the decades following the 1979 reopening of relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC), Cochran recounts in lively detail the contingencies and challenges of initiating cooperation and exchange between PRC and foreign scholars at the time. Cochran looks back at how he, Zhang, and other
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallEditorial2026-04-22text/htmlen-USEditorial2026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®88052026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22A Bridge Between China and the West: Zhang Zhongli and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988384
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After the Communist Revolution of 1949 and the United States' subsequent severing of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, American scholars found it virtually impossible to conduct research in China. Collaborations with Chinese scholars also proved difficult, especially during the Cultural Revolution when such exchanges were viewed as politically suspect in China. In the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of American scholars made brief trips to China as visitors rather than researchers, and in the late 1960s and 1970s, some American foundations attempted to promote unofficial communication between scholars in the United States and China. In 1966, for example, the Committee for Scholarly Communication
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallA Bridge Between China and the West: Zhang Zhongli and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences2026-04-22text/htmlen-USA Bridge Between China and the West: Zhang Zhongli and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences2026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®875522026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22Organizing for Crisis: The Shanghai Civic Association and the Formalization of Elite Voluntary Organizations, 1932–1937
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988385
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Scholars of Chinese state-society relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have long emphasized the critical role of voluntary associations in shaping urban governance and civic life.1 During this period, "modern" organizations like professional associations, educational associations, and chambers of commerce emerged and thrived alongside "traditional" organizations such as guilds, trade gangs, native-place associations, charities, and religious groups. Urban elites largely initiated these associations, which fostered a dynamic culture of civic participation around the turn of the twentieth century.2While the literature acknowledges their significance, debates persist regarding the degree of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallOrganizing for Crisis: The Shanghai Civic Association and the Formalization of Elite Voluntary Organizations, 1932–19372026-04-22text/htmlen-USOrganizing for Crisis: The Shanghai Civic Association and the Formalization of Elite Voluntary Organizations, 1932–19372026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®1317082026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22Teaching Resistance: The Shanghai Children's Summer Health Camp and the Pictorial Press, 1934–1938
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988386
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In the summer of 1935, the Shanghai-based children's fortnightly magazine Common Knowledge Illustrated (常試畫報 Changshi huabao; 1932–1936) ran a serial feature in its edition for "children in higher grades" (高級兒童 gaoji ertong) that covered the Shanghai Children's Summer Health Camp (夏令兒童健康營 Xialing ertong jiankangying). In it, Shijin (世近), a fictional boy attending the camp over the school holiday, sent four letters to his friend back home in the city with detailed descriptions of the camp's health-promoting activities. Each letter centered around explaining a lesson in healthy living that the campers had been taught and included photographs of the real children attending camp that year. In a moralistic tone that was
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallTeaching Resistance: The Shanghai Children's Summer Health Camp and the Pictorial Press, 1934–19382026-04-22text/htmlen-USTeaching Resistance: The Shanghai Children's Summer Health Camp and the Pictorial Press, 1934–19382026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®1260372026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22The Anti–Hong Kong Dollar Campaign and the Remaking of Economic Life in South China, 1949–1951
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988387
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The May 17, 1950, edition of the People's Daily (人民日报 Renmin ribao) ran a special report on daily life in Guangzhou after price levels went down by 28%. The stabilization of price levels meant that people no longer had to keep up with the fluctuating exchange rates between Hong Kong dollars and renminbi. One hotel worker recalled that previously he got his wages in renminbi and had to change them into Hong Kong notes. Now, the article claimed, the worker no longer needed to worry about that. Another resident, a trade unionist in a tobacco factory, explained that some workers used to secure goods immediately after receiving wages in renminbi, since those who held on to the currency suffered losses when it
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/390/image/coversmallThe Anti–Hong Kong Dollar Campaign and the Remaking of Economic Life in South China, 1949–19512026-04-22text/htmlen-USThe Anti–Hong Kong Dollar Campaign and the Remaking of Economic Life in South China, 1949–19512026-04-222026TWOProject MUSE®1196592026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-22