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Each month we focus on a key subject area or journal, lifting restrictions on content to make it freely available to all, and providing additional insights into the teams behind the journals, the journal histories, and their contents. This exciting feature includes articles and videos on our new journal Twentieth-Century China, the career of Ted Farmer, early medieval finds in China, Matteo Ricci and 400 years of the Nantang Cathedral in Beijing, Chinese music, Tang cities, the May Fourth Movement plus discounted subscriptions and much more!
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Early Medieval China... Ming Studies... T'ang Studies... Twentieth-Century China... Special issues..... Sneak preview of the January 2012 special issue of Twentieth-Century China on music in Shanghai during the first half of the twentieth-century. Listen to excerpts of compositions by renowned Russian-Chinese composer Aaron Avshalomov. The full compositions can be purchased from Naxos, the world's leading classical music group. In his article “Aaron Avshalomov and New Chinese Music in Shanghai, 1931-1947”, Dr John Winzenburg (Hong Kong Baptist University) explores the influence of Russian-Chinese composer Aaron Avshalomov. Another article set to feature in the issue is "Divide and Connections in Chinese Musical Modernity: Cases of Musical Networks Emerging in Colonial Shanghai, 1919-1937" by Dr Joys Cheung (City University of Hong Kong). Read the full abstract.
Volume 29 (2011) of T'ang Studies will investigate the role of the medieval city in Sui and Tang China and how it differed from the early modern period. The image above is the city of Luoyang during the time of the Sui dynasty and is featured in the article "The Miscellaneous Record of the Reign of the Great Enterprise and Sui Luoyang" by Victor Cunrui Xiong (Western Michigan University, USA). Read an introduction to the issue by guest editor Jack W. Chen (UCLA, USA) here.
A special issue of Twentieth-Century China dedicated to the May Fourth Movement is due to be published in September 2012. Dr Anne S. Chao (Rice University, TX, USA) gives an insight into the early networks of the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Duxiu, in her article "Network Analysis and the Study of Early Republican China: Some Preliminary Reflections". Read the full abstract. Blogging how the East is Read The China Beat provides context and criticism on contemporary China from China scholars and journalists. Read recent posts made to the blog below... In Search of Old Chinese Films A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610 Shanghai Spaces & Histories: Thoughts on Reading Qiu Xiaolong's Years of Red Dust From the Group comes the Nation: China's First Mass Political Organization, the Baohuanghui (Not Quite Frivolous) Friday: High Tea and the Opium War Hu Jintao's "Concession" on Human Rights The PRC and PR: Baffling Messages in Times Square?
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Editor's choice.... (Double-click to view videos at full-size.) Dr Jay Carter introduces Twentieth-Century China and tells us what's in store for the journal in 2011 and beyond... Dr Keith Knapp, President of the Early Medieval China Group, introduces Early Medieval China and discusses the recent purported discovery of Cao Cao's tomb.... Ming Studies, presents a video of a performance by ¡Sacabuche! in Beijing, in honor of the anniversary of Matteo Ricci's death in 1610..... AAS/ICAS 2011 Were you lucky enough to be at the AAS/ICAS 2011 meeting in Honolulu? If you didn't get chance to stop by our stand, don't worry! You can still receive up to 20% discount on our Chinese studies journals until 15th May 2011.
Celebrating the career of Professor Edward Farmer
In late February 2011, a conference or 'Tedfest' was held in honour of Professor Edward L Farmer as he retired from the University of Minnesota after 42 years. Professor Farmer (second from right) also served as Managing Editor of Ming Studies from the mid 1990s to this year and is a key figure in the field of Ming studies. Read a tribute to Professor Farmer by the journal's current editor Dr Ken Hammond. Introducing... Dr Christopher Nugent
Christopher Nugent is an Associate Professor of Chinese at Williams College and assumes the role of editor for T'ang Studies in 2011. He received his Ph.D in 2004 from Harvard University where he studied pre-modern Chinese poetry with Stephen Owen. His recent book "Manifest in Words, Written on Paper: Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China." deals with oral and written modes of producing and circulating poetry. His current research interests include approaches to reading, memory, and the organization of knowledge in medieval China. |
FREE Chinese Studies Virtual Journal! From 1 April to 15 May 2011 we are lifting all access restrictions on over 50 Chinese studies articles from a selection of our journals in a range of subject areas to make them available to you completely free of charge. To begin your free online trial simply fill out this quick form*, click 'submit' and view all content marked with an Throughout April only we are offering discounts of up to
Matteo Ricci and his mission in 17th century China
2010 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci. In recognition, Linda Pearse, the director of ¡Sacabuche!, and Cathy Barbash, a China cultural exchange specialist began conversations about developing a program which would explore musically both the Italian world of Ricci’s birth and his adult home of China. Read the story behind the performance. The full article "Performing Matteo Ricci: The Map and the Music" by Ann Waltner, Linda Pearse and Qin Fang is to appear in Volume 62 of Ming Studies, download the table of contents.
"Twentieth-Century China has long been an important go-to place for smart work on Chinese social, cultural and intellectual history...I'm delighted to see it continue to move in new directions" - Jeffrey Wasserstrom, renowned expert and editor, Journal of Asian Studies Maney is happy to announce the addition of Twentieth-Century China to our history list in 2011. Currently in TCC.... In this video Dr Diran John Sohigian introduces his article "Confucius and the Lady in Question: Power Politics, Cultural Production, and the Performance of Confucius Saw Nanzi in China in 1929" which features in Vol.36.1 of TCC and is available free to download in our Chinese Studies Virtual Journal. Read the table of contents for this issue here. Coming soon in TCC.... "Writers from Anhui and Provinciality in Modern China" is an article by Dr Mark Gamsa due to appear in the July 2011 issue. Read an abstract here. |
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