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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review volume 6, number 1 is now available and features the following articles.

Cartographic Anxieties

• Introduction to “Cartographic Anxieties” by Franck Bille
• Fishers and Territorial Anxieties in China and Vietnam: Narratives of the South China Sea Beyond the Frame of the Nation by Edyta Roszko
• The Da Ming Hunyi: Repurposing a Ming Map in Sino-African Diplomancy by Alexander Akin
• Cartographic Anxieties in Mongolia: The Bogd Khan’s Picture-Map by Uranchimeg Tsultemin
• On China’s Cartographic Embrace: A View from Its Northern Rim by Franck Bille
• A Spectacle of Maps: Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs by Martin Saxer

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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review volume 5, number 2 is now available and features the following articles.

Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham

• Introduction to “Frontier Tibet: Trade and Boundaries of Authority in Kham” by Stephane Gros
• “To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham”: Trade Routes and “Official Routes” (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham by Partrick Booz
• Construction Work and Wages at the Dergé Printing House in the Eighteenth Century by Remi Chaix
• Guozhuang Trading Houses and Tibetan Middlemen in Dartsedo, the “Shanghai of Tibet” by Yudru Tsomu
• Victorianizing Guangxu: Arresting Flows, Minting Coins, and
  Exerting Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Kham by Scott Relyea
• Tricks of the Trade: Debt and Imposed Sovereignty in Southernmost Kham in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries by Stephane Gros
• Memory Politics at Work in a Gyalrong Revolt in the Early Twentieth Century by Jinba Tenzin
• Afterword: Why Kham? Why Borderlands? Coordinating New
  Research Programs for Asia by C. Patterson Giersch

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Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review volume 5, number 1 is now available and features the following articles:

• The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture by Maggie Greene
• The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism by Inhye Han
• Against the Nihilism of Suffering and Death: Richard E.K. Kim and His Works by Jooyeon Rhee
• Street Theater and Subject Formation in Wartime China: Toward a New Form of Public Art by Xiaobing Tang
• Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore by Karen M. Teoh
• A Russian Radical and East Asia in the Early Twentieth Century: Sudzilovsky, China, and Japan by Vladimir Tikhonov (Pak Noja)
• Imagining Urban Community: Contested Geographies and Parallax Urban Dreams on Cheju Island, South Korea by Tommy Tran

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