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Volume 12, Issue 2 (July 2022)
Articles:
- Towards Sinophone Game Studies (Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue) – Heather Inwood
- Of Horror Games and Temples: Religious Gamification in Contemporary Taiwan – Joseph J. L. Beadle
- From Detention to Devotion: Historical Horror and Gaming Politics in Taiwan – Chia-rong Wu
- Games as Historical Representations: The Present/Presence in the Past – Jamie Wing Tung Tse
- Teaching Through the Uncanny: Red Candle Games’ Devotion – Gregory Adam Scott & Katherine Alexander
- The Revolution Will Not Be Gamified: Videogame Activism and Playful Resistance across the Sinophone – Hugh Davies
- Civil Disobedience in the Era of Videogames: Digital Ethnographic Evidence of the Gamification of the 2019-20 Extradition Protests in Hong Kong – Christopher J. H. Ho
- Negotiating Chinese Youth Cyber Nationalism through Play Methods – Johnathan Harrington & Zimu Zhang
- Through the Shanzhai Lens: Reframing the Transmedial Copying and Remaking of Games – Hailey J. Austin, Robin J. S. Sloan
- Issues and Strategies of Localising Sensitive Audiovisual Elements in Game Streaming: A Case Study on Overwatch League (OWL) Chinese Streaming – Dody M.H. Chen
- Games as Heterotopias: Realist Games in China – Haoxi Luo
- Tech Otakus Save The World? Gacha, Genshin Impact, and Cybemesis – Matthew James Adams
Volume 12, Issue 1 (January 2022)
Articles:
- Reclaiming Rubbish: Feiwu at the Intersections of Gender, Class, and Disability in Xiao Hong’s
Market Street and Field of Life and Death – Coraline Jortay - Between Fear and Respect: Vocabulary and Meanings of the Dead Body in Urban China from
the Late Qing to the Early Republican Era – Bobby Chun Tam - Translating Wang Xiaoshuai: From Third Front to Cultural Revolution ~ Paul Kendall
- Who Makes the Fall Happen? A Study of two National Taiwanese Universities’ Experiences of
Removing Statues of Chiang Kai-shek – Da-Chi Liao & Hsien-Ming Lin - Compressed Environmentalism: Greening Chengdu through Digital Platforms and Smart
Housing Estates – Edwin A. Schmitt
Essays on Chinese Identity in an Age of Anti-Asian Racism and #StopAsianHate:
- Kaori Abe; Carol Chan and Maria Montt Strabucchi; Yunpeng Du; Grace Lin: Hsien-Ming Lin:
Astrid Nordin and Kerry Brown; Yu Tao and Cheng Yen Lu; Luke Vulpiani; Anna Lora-
Wainwright, Leon Wainwright, and Shona Loong: Chi Zhang and Tung-Yi Kho
Volume 11 (July 2021)
Articles:
- Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967-1968 – Dalton Rawcliffe
- Branding the Chinese Dream: Reception of China’s Public Diplomacy in Britain’s “Cultural China” – Yan Wu, Sian Rees, Richard Thomas and Yakun Yu
- Guarding the Space In-between: The Quandary of Being a Liberal Mainland Student Migrant in Hong Kong – Ling Tang
- Becoming “British East Asian and Southeast Asian”: Anti-racism, Chineseness, and Political Love in the Creative and Cultural Industries – Diana Yeh
- Red Collections in Contemporary China: Towards a New Research Agenda – Emily Williams
- Colour Me Revolutionary: How the Use of Colour Grammar Aids in Understanding Internal Messages in Chinese Visual Iconography – Avital Zuk Avina
- The Digital Illusion: Chinese New Media Artists Exploring the Phenomenology of Space – Angela Becher
Essay:
- Elegy to the Nanguan Mosque (1981-2020): The Rise and Fall of a Symbol of Hui Muslim Identity – Jin Xu
Volume 10 (July 2020)
Articles:
- China’s Rise and “Responsibility” in the 21st Century – Astrid H. M. Nordin & Graham M. Smith
- Zen and the “Image” in Tang Poetry -T. H. Barrett
- A Forgotten Experiment: Constitutional Democratisation in Early Twentieth Century
China (1909-14) – Quan YAN & Ernest Ming-tak Leung - China’s Rise and “Responsibility” in the 21st Century – Astrid H. M. Nordin & Graham M. Smith
Volume 9, Issue 2 (July 2019)
Articles:
- A Small Business of Sexual Enlightenment: Zhang Jingsheng’s “Beauty Bookshop”,
Shanghai 1927-1929 – Leon Rocha - Confessions of a Dance Hostess: Social Dancing in Shanghai and Self-Portrayals of
Hostess-Writers, 1930-1949 – Amanda Zhang - Aestheticism versus Utilitarianism: The Reception of the “Tragic” in 1930s Chinese
Literary Discourse – Tian GU - The Ideological Function of “Positive Energy” Discourse: A People’s Daily Analysis – Francesca Triggs
- Bad Citizens and Symbolic Subjects: Wang Jin, Zhou Tiehai and the Art of (In)Civility – Ros Holmes (This article was retracted on 25 May 2022)
Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2019)
Editors’ Introduction – Gerda Wielander and Heather Inwood
Essay:
Articles:
Volume 8, Issue 2 (July 2018)
Editors’ Introduction – Sarah Dauncey and Gerda Wielander
Articles:
- Playful You in the Zhuangzi and Six Dynasties Literati Writing – Xiaofan Amy Li
- Empire and Visual Pleasure: Reinterpreting the Miao Albums of Yunnan and Guizhou – Jing Zhu
- Mainstream Film Production in a Country on the Cusp of Change: An Army Officer’s View of Three Chinese Films of the Early 1980s Produced by the August First Film Studio – Julian Ward
- Analysing Indonesian Media and Government Representation of China – Senia Febrica and Suzie Sudarman
Essays:
- The EU and China, 2006 to 2016: A Clash Between Interests and Values – Kerry Brown
- Working in No Man’s Land: Between Sociology and Chinese Studies – Norman Stockman
- Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates, Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China (Lin Jiao)
- Michelle Tien King, Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China (Ying-kit Chan)
- Lawton Robert Burns and Gordon G. Liu (eds.), China’s Healthcare System and Reform (Pia Eskelinen)
- Steve Lau and John De Lucy (eds.), Chinese Labour Corps: Photographs from the WJ Hawkings Collection (Craig Barclay & Rachel Barclay)
- Kristin Stapleton, Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family (Ronald Torrance)
- Bret Hinsch, Women in Imperial China (Hang Lin)
- James C.S. Lin and Xiuzhen Li, China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors (Craig Barclay)
Volume 8, Issue 1 (January 2018)
Editors’ Introduction – Gerda Wielander and Sarah Dauncey
Research Articles:
- Premarital Abortion—What is the Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women’s Pregnancy Among China’s “Privileged” Daughters – Kailing Xie
- Encompassing the Horse: Analogy, Category, and Scale in the Yijing – William Matthews
- The Favourable Partner: An Analysis of Lianhe Zaobao’s Representation of China in Southeast Asia – Daniel R. Hammond
- Free Trade, Yes; Ideology, Not So Much: The UK’s Shifting China Policy 2010-16 – Scott A.W. Brown
- Chun-yi Lee, Taiwanese Business or Chinese Security Asset? A Changing Pattern of Interaction between Taiwanese Businesses and Chinese Governments (Kerry Brown)
Volume 7 (July 2017)
Editors’ Introduction – Sarah Dauncey and Gerda Wielander
Research Articles:
- Strategic Theory and Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Test – Lauren Dickey
- Leaning to the Left: The Post-War Political Reorganisation of Chinese Women Activists within the CCP United Front Framework (1945-1949)
– Vivienne Xiangwei Guo - The Contested Role of Foreign and Domestic Foundations in the PRC: Policies, Positions, Paradigms, Power – Andreas Fulda
Essays & Notes:
- It All Started on a Train in China in 1976… – Don Rimmington
- Negotiating Politics and Academia – Stephan Feuchtwang
- Conferencing, Networking, Publishing – Tao Tao Liu
- The Dangers of Taking Responsibility and Acting on One’s Conscience in 21st Century China: A Review Essay of Xu Zhiyong’s To Build a Free China: A Citizen’s Journey – Gerda Wielander
- Howard Y.F. Choy, Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China (Sarah Dauncey)
Volume 6 (December 2016)
Research Articles:
- Drifting Through the Capital: “Floating” Migrants and Masculinity in Xu Zechen’s Fiction – Pamela Hunt
- Gorbachev’s Glasnost and the Debate on Chinese Socialism among Chinese Sovietologists, 1985-1999 – Jie Li
Essays & Notes:
- Taiwanese Media Reform – Ming-yeh Rawnsley, James Smyth and Jonathan Sullivan
- Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential and Legislative Elections – Jonathan Sullivan and James Smyth
- Ifan Williams, Created in Canton: Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith (Craig Barclay)
- Yang Chia-Ling and Roderick Whitfield, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture (Marjorie Dryburgh)
- Peter Kitson and Robert Markley (eds), Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations (Cheng Jin)
Volume 5 (January 2016)
Research Articles:
- The Syntactic Style of Cultural Revolution Literature – Lan Yang
- Speaking of Gods: The Discourse of the Extrahuman in early Chinese Texts – Justin Winslett
- Huang Xuelei, Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, connecting to the globe, 1922-1938 (Jeremy E. Taylor)
- Joanne Smith Finley, The Art of Symbolic Resistance: Uyghur Identities and Uyghur–Han Relations in Contemporary Xinjiang (Mamtimyn Sunuodula)
- Van de Ven, Hans J., Diana Lary, and Stephen R. MacKinnon, eds., Negotiating China’s Destiny in World War II (Maria-Caterina Bellinetti)
Volume 4 (August 2014)
Research Articles:
Essays & Notes:
- Bibliographical Notes on the Early-Ming Copy of the Zhouyi zhuanyi daquan at the Edinburgh University Library – Stephen McDowall
- Strange Stories about China’s Rise – William A. Callahan
- Kenneth Edward Brashier, Ancestral Memory in Early China (Michael Hoeckelmann)
- Chihyun Chang, Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China. The Maritime Customs Service and its Chinese staff (Thoralf Klein)
- Marjorie Dryburgh and Sarah Dauncey (eds), Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010: Histories of the Elusive Self (Frances Weightman)
- Colin Mackenzie, Masterworks of Chinese Art: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
- John Johnston and Chan Lai Pik, 5,000 years of Chinese Jade: featuring selections from the National Museum of History, Taiwan and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
- Liu Yang, China’s Terracotta Warriors: the First Emperor’s Legacy (Rachel Barclay and Craig Barclay)
- Yuri Pines, The Everlasting Empire: The Political Culture of Ancient China and Its Imperial Legacy (Hang Lin)
Volume 3 (December 2013)
Research Articles:
- The Re ‐ institutionalisation of Popular Fiction – the Internet and a New Model of Popular Fiction Prosumption in China – Chao Shih-chen
- Psyching a Paragon: A Sinitic Excursion in Practical Ethics – Lynn Struve
- Britain through Chinese Eyes: early perceptions of Britain in pre ‐ Opium War China – Gao Hao
Essays & Notes:
- Sam Geall ed. China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Agnes Khoo)
- Cal Clark ed. The Changing Dynamics of the Relations Among China, Taiwan, and the United States (Ghulam Ali)
Volume 2 (July 2013)
Research Articles:
- From Haijin to Kaihai: The Jiajing Court’s Search for a Modus Operandi along the South-eastern Coast (1522-1567) – Ivy Maria Lim
- The Sinification of Soviet Agitational Theatre: ‘Living Newspapers’ in Mao’s China – Jeremy Taylor
- Could or Should? The Changing Modality of Authority in the China Daily – Lily Chen
- Scott Waldron, Modernising Agrifood Chains in China: Implications for Rural Development (Kathleen Buckingham)
- Naomi Standen, Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History (Pierre Fuller)
- Amy Tak-tee Lai, Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora: Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah (Valerie Pellatt)
- Lili Hernandez, China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Art, Politics and Everyday Life (Mengyu Luo)
Volume 1 (December 2011)
Research Articles:
- The Sino-French Connection and World War One – Paul Bailey
- In Memory of Norman Bethune’: Two Resurrections of the ‘Spirit of Selflessness’ in Maoist China – Christos Lynteris