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Twentieth-Century China
Vol. 51, No. 3, October 2026
Table of Contents
Editorial
Anne Reinhardt
pp. 259-261
Language as Movement: A Short History of the Cantophone, 1840s–1920s
Pang Laikwan
pp. 262-283
Fluvial Dreams of Modernity: Hydropower Infrastructure, Global Networks, and State Making in Xikang, 1939–1947
Zachary A. Clark
pp. 284-305
Transnational Gold Smuggling and the Making of Hong Kong’s Financial Hub, 1944–1973
Ka Shing So
pp. 306-324
In Search of Utopia: The Intellectual Transformation of Xu Liangying from Loyal Communist to Democracy Advocate from the 1930s to 2013
Verna Yu
pp. 325-344
Book Reviews (Online Only)
Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China by Micah S. Muscolino (review)
Xiangli Ding
pp. E-9-E-11
Islamic China: An Asian History by Rian Thum (review)
Yuan Gao
pp. E-12-E-14
State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border by Yin Qingfei (review)
Tracy C. Barrett
pp. E-15-E-17
Grains of Conflict: The Struggle for Food in China’s Total War, 1937–1945 by Jennifer Yip (review)
Judd C. Kinzley
pp. E-18-E-19