This issue spans 210 pages, including four academic articles and five book reviews.

CHEN Tianjun: New Changes in Popular Literature: A Discussion on the Transmission and Reception of the Story of “Shuang Jian and Su Xiaoqing” during the Song, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties.

OU Li-chuan: A New Study on Daguan Yuan and Royal Gardens: With a Focus on Chengde Imperial Mountain Resort.

LIANG Yunyan: Privilege of Seclusion: On the Mural “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove” in Ancestral Halls of Guangzhou.

WANG Jianjun: The “National Calendar” in Modern China: Disconnected Denotation and China-West Entanglement.
 

HO Puay-peng: What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming. By Aurelia Campbell.

TAM Ka-chai: A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination. By Haiyan Lee.

PETERSEN Jens Østergaard: Spring and Autumn Historiography: Form and Hierarchy in Ancient Chinese Annals. By Newell Ann Van Auken.

NYLAN Michael: The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond. By Kuan-yun Huang.

BROKAW Cynthia: The First Print Era: The Rise of Print Culture in China’s Northern Song Dynasty. By Daniel Fried.

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To achieve a comprehensive green transformation in economic and social development is a policy priority for the Chinese government, and promoting the sustainable development of traditional industries is even more crucial. The theme of this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review” is “The Challenges of the Green Transformation in China”, a number of scholars will discuss food, agriculture, fisheries and other areas closely related to people’s livelihood.

The Twenty-First Century Review: The Challenges of the Green Transformation in China
Zhang Jie-ying, Li Xue-shi: Revisiting the Concept of “Embeddedness”: Towards a Sustainable Future for China’s Food Industry.
Yu Xin: The Concept of “Community Supported Agriculture”: Its Practices and Predicaments.
Wang Li-bing, Fang Jing: The Evolution of Policies in China’s Marine Fisheries and Its Current Dilemmas.
Zhang Qian, Da Lin-tai: Imagination of Modernization and the Dis-embedment of Value: Rethinking Institutional Changes of Grassland Management in China.

Research Articles
Zhang Lei: The Alienated Revolution: The Governance of Kuomintang in Feng County of Northern Jiangsu, 1927–1938.
Xu-bin, Bian-jing: Socialist Transformation of Aquaculture in Hubei Province during the Early Years of the People’s Republic of China.
Zhujiang Hua-feng: “Bargaining” Outside the Factory: A Preliminary Analysis of the Labor Intermediary Market in China’s Manufacturing Industry.

View on the World
Cai Yi-xuan, Olivia Wang: The Role of Art in Reconstructing the World amid the “Post-Carbon” Shift.

Discourses and Peripatetic Notes
Chen De-jun: Thomas Piketty: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in the Twenty-First Century.

Scholar’s Reminiscences
Chou Chih-ping: Harmony, but Not Uniformity: Qian Mu and Yu Ying-shih (Part II).

Book Reviews
Chan Hok-yin: The Afterlife of the May Fourth Movement: A Review on Ouyang Zhe-sheng, The Duet of Politics and Culture: The Events, the Memories, and the Interpretations of the May Fourth Movement.
Yang Qiu-yu: In Search of a Spirited May Fourth: A Review on Chen Ping-yuan, The Unfinished May Fourth: Historical Scenes and Intellectual Discourses.

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Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 206 (December 2024)



The world’s most watched United States Presidential Election is finally over. Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House will lead the world into an era of “uncertainty” and cause worries among the intellectuals. In this issue of “The Twenty-first Century Review”, we have invited three scholars to give us an in-depth discussion on the topic of “Implications of the 2024 United States Presidential Election”.

The Twenty-First Century Review: Implications of the 2024 United States Presidential Election
Hao Zhi-dong: The Reelection of Donald J. Trump and the Lessons of American Democracy.
Wu Guo: Internal Divisions in the United States and the “Super-Stability” of Its Democratic System.
Wilson Chan: The Return of Donald J. Trump and His Impact on the American Political Economy.

Research Articles
Cao Zi-ni, Dong Guo-qiang: Political Conflicts in the Reform of Basic Education in Beijing (1954–1966).
Zhang Jun-long: Army, Masses, and Violent Clashes: Taking the 1967 Cultural Revolution in Zhejiang as an Example.
Liu Qiong: The Resurgence of Jiangsu’s Buddhist Ritual Service after the Great Leap Forward.

Discourses and Peripatetic Notes
Zhu Jia-ming: Ideas Driving the Future: To Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Publication of Zou Xiang Weilai Book Series.

View on the World
Wang Pu: The Never-Ending End of Art: A Tour of American Contemporary Art in an Eventful Year.

Review Articles
Zhou Lu-yang, Li Wen-rong: The US Sociological Studies on the Soviet Union during the Cold War (Part I)

Book Reviews
Liang Jia-nong: A New Interpretation of Soviet Foreign Policy Decision-making in the Cold War: A Review on Sergey Radchenko, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power.
Liu Zong-kun: Political Strongmen and Electoral Authoritarianism: A Review on Aleksandar Matovski, Popular Dictatorships: Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism.

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