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Twentieth-Century China
Vol. 51, No. 1, January 2026
Table of Contents
Editorial
Anne Reinhardt
Introduction: Rethinking the Study Abroad Movement in Modern China, 1850s–1950s
Cécile Armand
Cost: A Key Factor Influencing Chinese Study Abroad in Japan and the United States, 1900–1937
You David Zuo, Li Yang, Chen Liang
Reshaping the Chinese Ladder of Success in the Era of Globalization: Family Strategies and Social Mobility of American-Educated Chinese, 1850–1917
Cécile Armand
Bridging the Gap: Hijacking the British Boxer Indemnity to Complete the Guangzhou–Hankou Railway
Thorben Pelzer
Advancing a Modern Statistical State: American-Educated Chinese Economics Students, American Foundations, and the Professionalization of Statistics in the Nanjing Government
Lin-Chun Wu
Japan-Educated Officials in China’s Wartime Central Administration
Christian Henriot
Book Reviews (online at muse.jhu.edu/journal/390)
Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism by Koji Hirata (review)
Selda Altan
The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty, Modernization, and the Connection of a Nation by Weipin Tsai (review)
Ghassan Moazzin