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Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation (2020)
Journal Article
Chiu, Y. (2020). Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 237-262. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902008

This paper investigates the poetry of Qu Xuanying, a literatus who remained in the city of Beiping (now Beijing) following its occupation by the Japanese in 1937. Through historical allusions in his poetry, Qu communicated with friends about the ethi... Read More about Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation.

The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai (2020)
Journal Article
Chan, P. P. (2020). The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 263-296. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902010

This article looks at artists' engagement with artistic activities carried out in wartime Shanghai, with a particular focus on guohua (lit., 'national painting'). Drawing on primary sources such as archival materials, diaries, paintings, magazines an... Read More about The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai.

Towards a New History of Elite Cultural Expression in Japanese-Occupied China (2020)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E., & Yang, Z. (2020). Towards a New History of Elite Cultural Expression in Japanese-Occupied China. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 189-207. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902003

This paper provides a 'state of the field' view of what the authors refer to as the 'new cultural history' of Japanese-occupied China. It explores how this small but growing field is beginning to provide new perspectives on questions of 'collaboratio... Read More about Towards a New History of Elite Cultural Expression in Japanese-Occupied China.

Thatched cottage in a fallen city: The poetics and sociology of survival under the occupation (2020)
Journal Article
Yang, Z. (2020). Thatched cottage in a fallen city: The poetics and sociology of survival under the occupation. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 209-236. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902006

This article examines the construction of lyric identities by Li Xuanti, a classical-style poet, cultural celebrity and prominent civil servant in collaborationist regimes based in Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It argues that Li used h... Read More about Thatched cottage in a fallen city: The poetics and sociology of survival under the occupation.

A Historian’s Ethical Duty: Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping (2020)
Journal Article
Yuan, Y. (2020). A Historian’s Ethical Duty: Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902009

In the wake of Japan's occupation of Beiping (now Beijing) in 1937, the historian Chen Yuan's choice between staying in or leaving the city (which would imply accommodation or resistance) was regarded not merely as a personal decision but also as a s... Read More about A Historian’s Ethical Duty: Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping.

Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988 (2020)
Book
Blackburn, D. (2020). Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. Manchester University Press

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all. The 'Penguin Specials', a series of current affairs books authored by leading in... Read More about Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988.

“Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930 (2020)
Journal Article
Baillargeon, D. (2022). “Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930. Enterprise and Society, 23(2), 325-356. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.49

This article examines the history of mining in British Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century. In particular, it focuses on the histories of the Burma Corporation and the Duff Development Company, which were located in British-occupied Bur... Read More about “Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930.

LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report (2020)
Report
Andrews, F., Catterall, P., Evans, I., Finn, M., Foxhall, K., Green, A., …Spicer, A. (2020). LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report. Royal Historical Society

A report by the Royal Historical Society's LGBT+ working group looking at LGBT+ histories and their place in university curriculums, libraries and galleries, as well as the conditions for LGBT+ historians. The report includes recommendations and reso... Read More about LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report.

Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020)
Book
Toropova, A. (2020). Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831099.001.0001

Stalin-era cinema was a technology of emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called on to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person—ranging from happiness and victorious laughter to hatred f... Read More about Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.

The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines (2020)
Journal Article
Skelchy, R. P. (2020). The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines. South East Asia Research, 28(3), 344-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2020.1803761

The article explores Christian missionary radio broadcasting as part of a wider sonic colonization of the Philippines under US colonial rule. Specifically, I explore how some post-Second World War faith-based broadcasters shaped the listening practic... Read More about The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines.

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688 (2020)
Book
Ward, M., & Hefferan, M. (Eds.). (2020). Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688. Palgrave Macmillan

Explores how loyalty to the British monarchs was cultivated, maintaine and expressed in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.

Approaches the concept of loyalty from different perspectives: from the legislature, from the government and from relig... Read More about Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688.

A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance (2020)
Journal Article
Weir, K. (2021). A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance. Journal of American Studies, 55(1), 75-101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820000675

The Pacific War Memorial on Corregidor Island in the Philippines was erected by the United States government to commemorate Filipino and American soldiers who had lost their lives during the Second World War. Inaugurated in 1968, it was the first Ame... Read More about A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance.