Current Issue

Vol 24, No. 2, Fall 2023

Articles

A Bridge, A Boat, and A Garden: Reimagining an Alternative World Order? An Analysis of Value Orientations in Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy Speeches, 2013-2023

Weidong Zhang

Framed Views: West Lake Scenic Vistas and Garden Design in Late Imperial China

Xiaolin Duan

Representing Transformations Through Art

Jingshuo Yang, Rowan Haug

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Steven Harrell, An Ecological History of Modern China (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2023)         Zhiguo Ye

Zhang Huateng ed. Minchu guojia xingzheng gebu yanjiu [A study of the ministries of the early Republic of China] (Beijing: Shehuikexue wenxian chubanshe, 2022)       Patrick Shan

Chih-p’ing Chou and Carlos Yu-Kai ed. Power of Freedom: Hu Shih’s Political Writings (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022)           Sophia Geng

About Authors

Article Authors

Weidong Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Global Studies and World Languages at Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota. He received an MA in Asian Studies, and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication with a Cultural Studies focus from the University of Iowa. His research interest lies at the intersection of identity, language, culture, and society. He has published research in the International Journal of China Studies, the Journal of Asian Communication Research, the Network and Communications Journal, among others.

Xiaolin Duan is an associate professor in the Department of History. Duan studies medieval to early modern China, particularly environmental history and visual/material culture. She published books The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty and An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade. She is currently working on the impact of the trans-Pacific trade on urban infrastructure. She is also interested in place-product co-branding in Middle period China.

Jingshuo Yang is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University. A skilled multimedia artist, Yang specializes in silk paintings and paper drawings, primarily portraying human emotions and psychological issues. Her work aims to bring awareness to these significant topics. She has held several solo exhibitions across Indiana, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Moreover, her artwork has been featured in many international exhibitions in China, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and the United States. Notably, her fiber artwork Like a Butterfly was showcased at the Suwon Museum of Art in South Korea, and her silk artwork Butterfly Women was exhibited at The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Japan.

Rowan Haug is an Instructor and Foundations Coordinator for the Mississippi State University Department of Art. Her art practice focuses on Fiber Arts through the language of Quilting, and her research interests lie in the origins and history of textiles, especially quilting.  

Book Review Authors

Zhiguo Ye is an Associate Professor in the History Department at Seattle Pacific University.

Patrick Shan is a Professor in the History Department of Grand Valley State University..

Sophia Geng is a Professor of China Studies at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.