ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (1 April 2024)

How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem? 

Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
 

Read about the life story of Zhang Luan, a merchant who stars in the archival records of the Gao Pu jade-smuggling case of the late Qianlong reign, and how his involvement revealed unknown details about the Shanxi firms’ operation.

Free thru 12 April in Late Imperial China.
 

Read about the life story of Zhang Luan, a merchant who stars in the archival records of the Gao Pu jade-smuggling case of the late Qianlong reign, and how his involvement revealed unknown details about the Shanxi firms’ operation.

Free thru 12 April in Late Imperial China.
 

During WW1, the Ottoman Empire lacked experience in cinema techniques, and the Germans responded, helping the Ottomans develop modern propaganda to mobilize the population for the war.

Read more, free in German Studies Review thru 12 April.
 

How does the influential Chinese Buddhist leader Taixu clarify the role played by Buddhism in secular life, and how can Buddhist perspectives help reduce tensions between a person’s search for autonomy and their commitment to social responsibilities? 

Free in Journal of Chinese Religions thru 12 April
 

Alex McPhee-Browne revisits the 1983 book “The Old Christian Right” to better understand the roots, significance, and impact of the far right in 20th and 21st century America

Free in Reviews in American History thru 12 April
 

“From the center to the circle, from the circle to the center,” Dante wrote, regarding Thomas Aquinas ceding the floor to Beatrice

In Dante Studies, Alison Cornish explores how this simple passage reveals the cosmological model of Dante's universe

Read free thru 5 April
 

Did you know that the Coptic “Act of Peter” might be a late ancient Christian reformulation of an early Jewish temple tradition?

Read more on the context & implications of this intertextual relationship discussed in Journal of Early Christian Studies

Read free thru 5 April
 

Focusing on the "moral of the elephant,” Niki Kasumi Clements re-evaluates Foucault's “tournant antique” to better understand his shift from early modern Christianity through to Ancient Greek philosophers in the later years of the History of Sexuality

Read free in Arethusa thru 5 April
 

The 2019 Copy Alternative in Small Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act may seem like a mouthful, and its processes even more complex.

Tomas A. Lipinski examines the pros and cons of the new law in Library Trends, free thru 5 April
 

From the hand of an enslaved copyist to the hand of a martyr, textual gestures performed in one’s own hand take on a new meaning in Sabrina Inowlocki’s article in the newest volume of the Journal of Late Antiquity.

Read free thru 5 April