ORIENS EXTREMUS 61.2024 contains a roundtable on The Conceptual History of Modern China, a special section on Knowing China in a Modern World, guest-edited by Bruce Rusk, and four independent research articles:
Thomas Fröhlich et al.
Roundtable: The Conceptual History of Modern China
Bruce Rusk
Introduction: Knowing China in a Modern World
Leigh Jenco
Authentic, Accurate, Real: Validity and the Cult of Qing (Emotion) in Late Ming Poetic Criticism
Jérôme Bourgon
“Despotism, Certainly, but the Best of All” (Montesquieu)—China’s Autocratic Legality in a Comparative Historical Perspective
Gregory Blue
Making Europe’s China “Ancient”: The Epicurean Moment
Haun Saussy
An Empire Ruled by Outsiders: Kang Youwei on Imperial Cosmopolitanism
Luke Waring
Commerce and Classical Learning in Wang Chong’s Balanced Discourses
Zhang Zhongmin
张仲民
Politics of Hygiene in Revolutionary Base Areas of the CPC from1927 to 1949
Gao Ziwen
高子文,
trans. Stefan CHRIST
Bernd Spyra
Nationhood, Modernity, and Discursive Construction: On the Origin and Development of the Concept of Huaju (Spoken Drama)
Modern Traditional Prints: Entangling Chinese Popular Culture ina Transnational Ethnographic Collection