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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><tt><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>March 2012 </span></u></b></tt><tt><b><u><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Issue of "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" now online</span></u></b></tt><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'> </span></tt><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The second issue of IEAS's new, interactive e-journal "Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review" is now online. The theme of </span></tt><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>the March 2012 </span></tt><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>issue is "Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the <i>Gaihōzu</i>" (guest edited by Kären Wigen, professor of History at Stanford). Visit</span></tt><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2">http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2</a></span></span><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> to read the articles, a review essay written by Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia) about Ezra Vogel's new book on Deng Xiaoping, and abstracts of important new scholarship in Chinese. The March issue of the e-journal also features a photo essay by Jianhua Gong documenting Shanghai's <i>longtang</i> alleyways. </span></tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666'> </span></tt><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><tt><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A joint enterprise of the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley (IEAS), "Cross-Currents" offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities.</span></tt></span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></tt><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br>* * ** ** <o:p></o:p></p><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><b><span style='color:windowtext'>March 2012 </span>issue of "Cross-Currents" e-journal</b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>(See <a href="http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2">http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-2</a>)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><b>*Co-Editors' Note*</b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Building an Online Community of East Asia Scholars<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Sungtaek Cho, Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS), Korea University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Wen-hsin Yeh, Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), University of California, Berkeley<o:p></o:p></i></pre><pre><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre><b>*Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the Gaihozu*<o:p></o:p></b></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Introduction to "Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History: The Past and Future of the Gaihozu"<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Guest editor Kären Wigen, Stanford University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Japanese Mapping of Asia-Pacific Areas, 1873-1945: An Overview<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Shigeru Kobayashi, Osaka University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Imagining Manmo: Mapping the Russo-Japanese Boundary Agreements in Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, 1907-1915<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Yoshihisa T. Matsusaka, Wellesley College</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Triangulating Chosen: Maps, Mapmaking, and the Land Survey in Colonial Korea<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>David Fedman, Stanford University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Mapping Economic Development: The South Seas Government and Sugar Production in Japan's South Pacific Mandate, 1919--1941<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Ti Ngo, University of California, Berkeley</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><span class=moz-txt-tag><b>*</b></span><b>Forum<span class=moz-txt-tag>*</span></b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Asian Studies/Global Studies: Transcending Area Studies and Social Sciences<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>John Lie, University of California, Berkeley<span class=moz-txt-tag>/</span></i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Defenders and Conquerors: The Rhetoric of Royal Power in Korean Inscriptions from the Fifth to Seventh Centuries<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Hung-gyu Kim, Korea University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><span class=moz-txt-tag><b>*</b></span><b>Review Essays and Notes<span class=moz-txt-tag>*</span></b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Of Leaders and Governance: How the Chinese Dragon Got Its Scales<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>Timothy Cheek, University of British Columbia</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>A Note on the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's Visit to China<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i>William C. Kirby, Harvard University</i><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><b>*Photo Essay*</b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>"Shanghai Alleyways" by photographer Jianhua Gong<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Essay by Xiaoneng Yang, Stanford University<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><b>*Readings from Asia*</b><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre><span class=field-content>Ge Zhaoguang , Dwelling in the Middle of the Country: Reestablishing Histories of "China" [</span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>宅</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:MingLiU'>兹中国</span>:</span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>重建有</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>关</span>"</span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>中</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>国</span>"</span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>的</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:MingLiU'>历史</span>]<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span class=field-content><i>Abstract by Wennan Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences</i><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=field-content><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span class=field-content>Wang Qisheng, Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Republican Politics in Social-Cultural Scope [</span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>革命</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>与反革命</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif"'>：</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Gulim","sans-serif"'>社</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:"MS Gothic"'>会文化</span></span><span class=field-content><span lang=KO style='font-family:MingLiU'>视野下的民国政治</span>]<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></pre><pre><span class=field-content><i>Abstract by Bin Ye, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences</i></span><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>