Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review

eScholarship stats: History by Item for June through September, 2026

Item	Title	Total requests	2026-09	2026-08	2026-07	2026-06
68r750pm	From Revolutionary Culture to Original Culture and Back: “On New Democracy” and the Kampucheanization of Marxism-Leninism, 1940-1965	1,002	302	428	127	145
55f6d1k8	Misrepresenting Atrocities: "Kill Anything that Moves" and the Continuing Distortions of the War in Vietnam	711	225	255	135	96
42r43794	Defenders and Conquerors: The Rhetoric of Royal Power in Korean Inscriptions from the Fifth to Seventh Centuries	708	270	301	78	59
6h85b8zs	Why Didn’t “Gangnam Style” Go Viral in Japan?: Gender Divide and Subcultural Heterogeneity in Contemporary Japan	685	163	260	101	161
3jf1m788	The French Colonization and Japanese Occupation of Indochina during the Second World War: Encounters of the French, Japanese, and Vietnamese	649	201	177	98	173
7209v5n2	"Music for a National Defense": Making Martial Music during the Anti-Japanese War	625	88	398	35	104
92x8h59z	踏车而飞：自行车与中国骑车人（1868-1949 年）[A History of the Bicycle and Chinese Cyclists, 1868-1949]	580	140	177	82	181
7qn1q8cx	Transformation of China's Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Case Study of the City of Kunshan	567	52	380	52	83
02m6693f	The Game People Played: Mahjong in Modern Chinese Society and Culture	564	189	210	79	86
5b34s57s	A History of Court and Commoner Clothing in Vietnam	543	191	213	84	55
71b8t1xc	State Capacity in City Planning: The Reconstruction of Nanjing, 1927-1937	518	91	152	122	153
2v98z7x8	Redefining the Moral and Legal Roles of the State in Everyday Life: The New Life Movement in China in the Mid-1930s	508	65	335	29	79
9c93w8v1	Gender and Power Dynamics in Transnational Marriage Brokerage: The Ban on Commercial Matchmaking in Taiwan Reconsidered	505	280	146	42	37
1bs7p91s	Networks, Parties, and the "Oppressed Nations": The Comintern and Chinese Communists Overseas, 1926-1935	488	180	204	58	46
7pj4r9hc	The South Manchurian Railway Company and the Mining Industry: The Case of the Fushun Coal Mine	470	166	143	51	110
9jf3g1ws	K-pop in Korea: How the Pop Music Industry is Changing a Post-Developmental Society	459	113	111	78	157
0sv1m9gp	Migrant Labor and Massacres: A Comparison of the 1923 Massacre of Koreans and Chinese during the Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1931 Anti-Chinese Riots and Massacre of Chinese in Colonial Korea	458	133	144	68	113
0wp0m58k	Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Female Knight-Errant in Republican China	441	137	211	42	51
60z4p2nk	Triangulating Chōsen: Maps, Mapmaking, and the Land Survey in Colonial Korea	435	128	260	23	24
7kt1r532	From Globalization to Liquidation: The Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and the First World War in China	427	68	176	116	67
22s080jq	Life with Tetrapods: The Nature of Concrete in Okinawa	399	145	135	30	89
0qz572b2	“We’re Never Off Duty”: Empire and the Economies of Race and Gender in the U.S. Military Camptowns of Korea	398	122	106	77	93
1kn8961b	Cross-Border Brides: Vietnamese Wives, Chinese Husbands in a Border-Area Fishing Village	393	68	100	71	154
2q59p54t	Mong La: Business as Usual in the China-Myanmar Borderlands	388	81	148	70	89
25k405w7	Abuse of Modernity: Japanese Biological Determinism and Identity Management in Colonial Korea	368	98	208	19	43
2bw3g3n4	State and Smuggling in Modern China: The Case of Guangzhouwan/Zhanjiang	359	71	137	67	84
8sk4t97q	The Cult of Boudhanath Stupa/Jarung Khashar Suvraga in Mongolia: Texts, Images, and Architectural Replicas	352	56	115	86	95
1h39c46v	"To Control Tibet, First Pacify Kham": Trade Routes and "Official Routes" (Guandao) in Easternmost Kham	338	91	95	72	80
7sm3999r	Hallyu across the Desert: K-pop Fandom in Israel and Palestine	329	80	84	50	115
75f0d25m	Specters of War in Pyongyang: The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum in North Korea	328	78	81	47	122
08p9j8zn	The Qing Challenge in Chosŏn Korea	322	63	99	55	105
291303dx	"Chinese Children Rise Up!": Representations of Children in the Work of the Cartoon Propaganda Corps during the Second Sino-Japanese War	322	68	119	68	67
4j51v506	National Agendas and Local Realities: Festive Material and Ritual Culture, Nationalism, and Modernity in the Chita Region of Japan	319	68	87	38	126
502672b8	The Portraits of a Heroine: Huang Bamei and the Politics of Wartime History in China and Taiwan, 1930–1960	311	67	102	46	96
20d241p2	Imagining the New Socialist Child: The Cultural Afterlife of the Child Martyr Wang Erxiao	305	71	116	46	72
1073p32d	Victorianizing Guangxu: Arresting Flows, Minting Coins, and Exerting Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Kham	303	48	185	33	37
42v707z1	War Remembered, Revolution Forgotten: Recasting the Sino-North Korean Alliance in China’s Post-Socialist Media State	292	32	85	59	116
42p4f3vz	The “Fake Marriage” Test in Taiwan: Gender, Sexuality, and Border Control	291	39	70	42	140
7p1048h7	On China's Cartographic Embrace: A View from Its Northern Rim	286	61	125	28	72
90t6x5m8	Demystifying the Nation: The Communist Concept of Ethno-Nation in 1920s-1930s Korea	282	73	118	35	56
02p2s3q9	China's Memory and Commemoration of the Korean War in the Memorial to Resist America and Aid (North) Korea	280	49	172	20	39
439646s4	Cholera and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Japan	279	61	76	49	93
5r17c7g0	The "Da Ming Hunyi Tu": Repurposing a Ming Map in Sino-African Diplomacy	277	78	100	27	72
67q2984p	Domesticating Hybridity: Straits Chinese Cultural Heritage Projects in Malaysia and Singapore	277	68	76	64	69
1774w6t4	Predicated on the People: Legitimating Politics and Parties in Early Republican China	274	62	89	58	65
9q29j8m3	Horai Rice in the Making of Japanese Colonial Taiwan	273	53	101	43	76
2qs6h19b	New Revolutionary Agenda: The Interwar Japanese Left on the “Chinese Revolution”	268	89	131	25	23
8tf1k10t	From “Customary” to “Illegal”: Yao Ethnic Marriages on the Sino-Vietnamese Border	267	88	88	48	43
0s14m9b9	Wild Cities: The Renegade Roots of Urban Taiwan	266	80	99	44	43
5hn0h95r	Youth and Political Music in Taiwan: Resignifying the Nation at Inland Rock and Tshingsan Fest	265	48	92	54	71

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