Subjects -> HUMANITIES (Total: 980 journals)
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Aboriginal Child at School     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
About Performance     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
Access     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 24)
ACCESS: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural & Policy Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 12)
Acta Universitaria     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Adeptus     Open Access  
Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 1)
Afghanistan     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
African Historical Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
AFRREV IJAH : An International Journal of Arts and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Agriculture and Human Values     Open Access   (Followers: 27)
Akademisk Kvarter / Academic Quarter     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Aleph : UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Alterstice : Revue internationale de la recherche interculturelle     Open Access  
Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
American Imago     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 4)
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 13)
American Review of Canadian Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Anabases     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Anglo-Saxon England     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 33)
Antik Tanulmányok     Full-text available via subscription  
Antipode     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 69)
Anuario Americanista Europeo     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arbutus Review     Open Access  
Argumentation et analyse du discours     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Ars & Humanitas     Open Access   (Followers: 8)
Artefact : Techniques, histoire et sciences humaines     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Artes Humanae     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 37)
Asia Europe Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Astra Salvensis     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, The     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Behaviour & Information Technology     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 31)
Behemoth     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Belin Lecture Series     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Bereavement Care     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
BMC Journal of Scientific Research     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Borderlands Journal : Culture, Politics, Law and Earth     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 26)
Cahiers de praxématique     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Child Care     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
Chinese Studies Journal     Open Access  
Choreographic Practices     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Claroscuro     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Co-herencia     Open Access  
Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 10)
Cogent Arts & Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Colloquia Humanistica     Open Access  
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 28)
Con Texte     Open Access  
Congenital Anomalies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Creative Industries Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Critical Arts : South-North Cultural and Media Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Cuadernos de historia de España     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Cultural History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 30)
Cultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 70)
Culturas : Debates y Perspectivas de un Mundo en Cambio     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Culture, Theory and Critique     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 30)
Daedalus     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Dandelion : Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Death Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Digital Humanities Quarterly     Open Access   (Followers: 58)
Digitális Bölcsészet / Digital Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Diogenes     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Dorsal : Revista de Estudios Foucaultianos     Open Access  
E+E : Estudios de Extensión en Humanidades     Open Access  
e-Hum : Revista das Áreas de Humanidade do Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte     Open Access  
Early Modern Culture Online     Open Access   (Followers: 39)
East Asian Pragmatics     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 6)
EAU Heritage Journal Social Science and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Égypte - Monde arabe     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Eighteenth-Century Fiction     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 22)
Éire-Ireland     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 8)
En-Claves del pensamiento     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Enfoques     Open Access  
Esclavages & Post-esclavages     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Études arméniennes contemporaines     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Études de lettres     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
European Journal of Cultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
European Journal of Social Theory     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Expositions     Full-text available via subscription  
Fa Nuea Journal     Open Access  
Fields: Journal of Huddersfield Student Research     Open Access  
Frontiers in Digital Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 9)
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 2)
German Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
German Studies Review     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 32)
Germanic Review, The     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
Globalizations     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO)     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Habitat International     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 9)
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 16)
Heritage & Society     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 16)
Heritage, Memory and Conflict Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 17)
History of Humanities     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 9)
Hopscotch: A Cultural Review     Full-text available via subscription  
Horizontes LatinoAmericanos     Open Access  
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 3)
Human Nature     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Human Performance     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Human Remains and Violence : An Interdisciplinary Journal     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 3)
Human Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
humanidades     Open Access  
Humanidades em diálogo     Open Access  
Humanités Numériques     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 11)
Humanities and Cultural Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 4)
Humanities and Social Science Research     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Humanities and Social Sciences Journal     Open Access   (Followers: 5)
Humanities and Social Sciences Journal of Graduate School, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University     Open Access  
Humanities and Social Sciences Journal, Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Humanities Diliman : A Philippine Journal of Humanities     Open Access  
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Studies (HASSS)     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
Hungarian Cultural Studies     Open Access  
Hungarian Studies     Full-text available via subscription  
Hybrid : Revue des Arts et Médiations Humaines     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies     Full-text available via subscription  
Inkanyiso : Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access  
Insaniyat : Journal of Islam and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of Business, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of Cultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 30)
International Journal of Heritage Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 9)
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Research     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
International Journal of Humanities of the Islamic Republic of Iran     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
International Journal of Humanity Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 2)
International Journal of Listening     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)
International Journal of Research and Scholarly Communication     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
International Journal of the Classical Tradition     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
International Research Journal of Arts & Humanities     Open Access  
Interventions : International Journal of Postcolonial Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
ÍSTMICA. Revista de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras     Open Access  
Iztapalapa : Revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades     Open Access  
Jaunujų mokslininkų darbai     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Jednak Książki : Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne     Open Access  
Jewish Culture and History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Journal de la Société des Américanistes     Open Access  
Journal des africanistes     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal for Cultural Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 14)
Journal for General Philosophy of Science     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal for Learning Through the Arts     Open Access   (Followers: 6)
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture     Open Access   (Followers: 21)
Journal of African American Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 12)
Journal of African Cultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 6)
Journal of Arts & Communities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Journal of Arts and Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 23)
Journal of Arts and Social Sciences     Open Access  
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 2)
Journal of Burirum Rajabhat University     Open Access  
Journal of Cultural Economy     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Journal of Cultural Geography     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 19)
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities     Open Access   (Followers: 43)
Journal of Developing Societies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Family Theory & Review     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Happiness Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 21)
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences     Open Access  
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Surin Rajabhat University     Open Access  
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rajapruk University     Open Access  
Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science     Open Access   (Followers: 7)
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 11)
Journal of Intercultural Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Journal of Labor Research     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 20)
Journal of Medical Humanities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 22)
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 48)
Journal of Modern Greek Studies     Full-text available via subscription   (Followers: 5)
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Journal of Open Humanities Data     Open Access   (Followers: 3)
Journal of Population and Sustainability     Open Access  
Journal of Semantics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 1)
Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities     Open Access  
Journal of Visual Culture     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 32)
Jurisprudence     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 17)
Jurnal Sosial Humaniora     Open Access  
L'Orientation scolaire et professionnelle     Open Access  
Lagos Notes and Records     Full-text available via subscription  
Language and Intercultural Communication     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 23)
Language Resources and Evaluation     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 4)
Law and Humanities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 8)
Law, Culture and the Humanities     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 13)
Le Portique     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Leadership     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 29)
Legal Ethics     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 15)
Legon Journal of the Humanities     Full-text available via subscription  
Letras : Órgano de la Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Huamans     Open Access   (Followers: 1)
Literary and Linguistic Computing     Hybrid Journal   (Followers: 5)

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Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
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      Abstract: Tokyo, 1874. rickshaws are everywhere to be seen. Introduced in 1869, they now circulate by tens of thousands in the streets of the new capital. In Hattori Bushō's 服部撫松 (1842–1908) Tōkyō shin hanjōki 東京新繁昌記 (A new record of flourishing Tokyo; 1874–1876), passengers excuse themselves with ritual expressions whose meaning is downplayed while their sonority is emphasized.1 They are introduced aurally, their external features are absent, nor do we find the smallest hint at their state of mind as they board and get off. To announce rickshaws, whose description is essentially acoustic, Bushō resorts to onomatopoeias:Voices saying "I beg your pardon" merge with the wheels' sound, then trail away: beg your pardon, rattle ... Read More
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      Abstract: The self-images of the late Ming publisher, Yu Xiangdou 余象斗 (ca. 1560–1637), are one of the most compelling emblems of the flourishing print culture in late imperial China.1 Yu Xiangdou was a prolific commercial publisher in the low-end commercial book center of Jianyang 建陽 in northern Fujian Province, which reached its heyday in the sixteenth century.2 He published more than forty-five titles over some fifty years in a variety of genres, including the Confucian Classics, examination literature, almanacs, daily encyclopedias, legal guidebooks, literary collections, histories, and popular fiction. Many of his books enjoyed great success, being reprinted several times both in his lifetime and after his death. Yu ... Read More
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  • The Language of Sex in Jin Ping Mei

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      Abstract: The sexually explicit contents of Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 have long subjected the book to intense debate.1 Questions asked ever since the novel first appeared have centered on such things as whether or not it is an obscene book (yinshu 淫書), how "good" or "bad" its obscenity is, or what purpose its salacious contents serve. Yet no study so far has done what can be considered a sustained critical analysis of the novel's language of sex.2 What does the novel's language of sex accomplish in terms of its aesthetics, meaning, and function' What are the modes of portraying sex' What is the economy of sexual description' Such questions have to do with the artful use of language and imagery, as well as the way the author uses such ... Read More
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      Abstract: How might the field of Heian literary studies become more open and more energizing to inhabit' I was invited to review two new books on Heian literature and soon felt drawn to consider a broader range of monographs and issues, including what it means to inhabit this subfield presently and how we might improve our interpretive and pedagogical work. In a fit of genuine optimism, I initially wrote: "Edith Sarra's and Takeshi Watanabe's new books help me hold out hope for anglophone Heian literary studies. Despite being focused squarely on single texts, both studies add much to our understanding of Heian literature, mining metaphors of exorcism and architecture to expand our sense of how literary texts, historical ... Read More
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      Abstract: In 2013, Xi Jinping, the ambitious new president and Communist Party secretary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), launched his grand vision of a "new era" of cooperative globalization under the auspices of his Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, Ch. Yidai yilu 一帶一路). Taking up previous campaigns that had urged Chinese corporations to "go out" and secure "win-win" investment partnerships around the world, state media touted the BRI as the seamless continuation across Eurasia of a millennia-old "Silk Road Spirit" of open, peaceful, and mutually beneficial trade.1 Chinese nationalist netizens in the PRC and abroad have declared China's BRI to be the only possible alternative to post–Cold War capitalist globalization ... Read More
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      Abstract: An important part of religious life in China is the veneration and supplication of various deities, who are typically represented in the form of statues or paintings. These ubiquitous objects of worship can be found in various temples and shrines across China (and other areas where traditional Chinese culture is present), as well as in the homes of individual families and places of business. They are associated with a wide range of beliefs, practices, and traditions. Some of them are primarily linked with one of the three teachings—Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism—which over the centuries have exerted enormous influences on various facets of Chinese life, within and outside of the religious sphere. There are also ... Read More
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  • The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick
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      Abstract: Andrew Chittick has written the first English work that provides a full overview of the Six Dynasties (Liuchao 六朝), comprising Wu 吳 (220–280), Eastern Jin 晉 (318–420), Liu Song 劉宋 (420–479), Southern Qi 齊 (479–502), Liang 梁 (502–557), and Chen 陳 (557–589). This bold, pioneering, and insightful book concludes that we should refer to these polities as the Jiankang 建康 empire, since they had the same city (present-day Nanjing) as their capital and shared numerous characteristics. Chittick's book furnishes a penetrating analysis of the Jiankang empire, covering its linguistic complexity, political culture, frontier policy, military affairs, economic trends, and popular religion, as well as its piety in Buddhism. This ... Read More
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  • Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea by David
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      Abstract: "The mountain ranges in Korea cover more than half the total area of the country. Owing to indiscriminate felling of trees without public supervision, which was practiced for a long time past, most of the mountain slopes … have become denuded of trees."1 Traditionally, academic histories of Korean forests almost inevitably start with the assertions of the Japanese colonial authorities, such as this quotation from a report published by Tokyo's famous precolonial Resident-General Itō Hirobumi 伊藤博文 in 1907. In this colonial narrative, Korean forest history, in comparison with Japan's, was not auspicious. The Chosŏn dynasty bequeathed only degraded forests and mountains, covered not in trees but in vividly red soil. ... Read More
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  • The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese
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      Abstract: This comparative study explores how selected Japanese architects and writers imagined, represented, or visualized the city. Describing in vivid detail their shared investments in what Gardner usefully terms the narrative "elements" of the city, this book offers a captivating mapping of two deeply entangled domains where Japan's urban imaginaries took on new contours during the decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Deftly attending to the speculative dimensions of both literary and architectural discourses of the city, Gardner's book opens new interdisciplinary entryways to Japan's vocabularies of urban environments and planetary urbanization, analyzing the role of speculative futures therein.This volume complements a ... Read More
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  • Korean Skilled Workers: Toward a Labor Aristocracy by Hyung-A Kim (review)

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      Abstract: "Nothing prospers," Sophocles writes, "without pain and toil."1 While South Korea's spectacular rise to economic world prominence in the late twentieth century owes much to its strong developmental state headed by former army general Park Chung Hee 朴正熙, who seized political power in a military coup d'état in May 1961, neither the state's aggressive export regime that drove the economy during those years nor its astonishing statistical achievements can be comprehended without reference to the composition and competitiveness of the country's labor force. In an earlier book, Hyung-A Kim examines the dynamic triumvirate in the presidential Blue House consisting of Park, his chief-of-staff Kim Chŏngnyŏm 金正濂, and second ... Read More
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  • The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, Volume II: Merchants,
           Markets, and Lineages, 1500–1700 by Joseph P. McDermott (review)

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      Abstract: "Many mountains, few fields" (shanduo tianshao 山多田少). During the mid-Ming, gazetteer editors used this phrase to explain why residents of Huizhou 徽州 Prefecture abandoned agriculture for trade, initially in timber and other mountain products.1 The geographical reality that this phrase describes provides a commonsense explanation for why this mountainous, interior prefecture became the homeland of Ming China's most renowned trade diaspora. This rationale echoes in even the best work on emigrant communities of overseas Chinese trade and labor diasporas in the modern era.2 Yet most mountainous areas of China did not spawn powerful trade diasporas. Indeed, other mid-Ming writers used this same phrase to explain why ... Read More
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  • The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia
           and Europe by Mårten Söderblom Saarela (review)

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      Abstract: Mårten Söderblom Saarela sets a new precedent for research about the languages of late imperial China and makes a vital contribution to the international genre of language histories with his biography of the Manchu script and its significance beyond the physical and political domains of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). Whereas it is well established how Manchu was ostensibly invented to serve as a writing system of political importance for the Qing state, its development as a literary language remains to be fully explored, particularly beyond the imperial metropolis of Beijing and northeastern China. Söderblom Saarela makes the compelling case that Manchu was a world language of the early modern age. Although Manchu ... Read More
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  • Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia by Eric
           Schluessel (review)

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      Abstract: As its subtitle declares, Land of Strangers engages with the concept of the Confucian "civilizing project" to understand the incorporation of Xinjiang into China's last dynasty, the Qing (1644–1912), during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Schluessel's book, however, centers on the experiences of ordinary southern Xinjiang Muslims. Their daily lives were largely uninformed by nascent struggles of Uyghur protonationalism in conflict with a monolithic Chinese state—struggles that increasingly structure the narrative assumptions of current work on the region. The author wants to let his sources "speak for themselves, without a predetermined theoretical framework" to allow "their concerns to guide the ... Read More
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  • Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe by
           Stephen H. Whiteman (review)

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      Abstract: Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe, by Stephen Whiteman, focuses on the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu shanzhuang 避暑山莊, hereafter Mountain Estate), the renowned Qing dynasty (1636–1912) summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde), located 180 kilometers northeast of Beijing, beyond the Great Wall. Originally one of a network of traveling palaces at which the Manchu emperor would stop during his annual tours among the court's Inner Mongolian allies, in the first decade of the eighteenth century, the site was transformed by the Kangxi 康熙 emperor (r. 1661–1722) into a lavish complex of gardens and palaces that eventually served as a secondary Qing capital. Most extant scholarship ... Read More
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  • Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948) by Simon
           Wickhamsmith (review)

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      Abstract: Simon Wickhamsmith's Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921–1948) makes an important contribution to our understanding of Mongolian literature in the first three decades of the Mongolian People's Republic. This book begins with the Mongolian People's Revolution of 1921 (Arad-un qubisγal) and ends with the codification of Mongolian socialist realism in the first congress of Mongolian writers in 1948. Wickhamsmith extends the historical and anthropological work of Irina Morozova, David Sneath, and other researchers, who have depicted the gradual transformation of Mongolia into a modern, Soviet-modeled socialist state, in which a new political and national vocabulary, as well as new institutions and social roles ... Read More
      PubDate: 2023-02-26T00:00:00-05:00
       
 
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