China

Dear Colleagues,

What Chinese-language e-book reader apps are good? Where do you purchase your e-books? I'm looking for an e-reader app/marketplace/library that:

1. Has lots of simplified Chinese books

2. Has sensitive books unavailable on the Mainland market

3. Offers an in-app dictionary for faster use (no cut-and-paste to a second app)

This particular combination is proving difficult to find. I like Baidu Yuedu for #1 and #3. The Chinese book selections on Amazon and Google Play are weird/mostly for kids/mostly in traditional characters.

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Fiona S. Cunningham and M. Taylor Fravel.  “Dangerous Confidence?  Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation.”  International Security 44:2 (2019):  61-109.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00359

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Dear Colleague,

Dear H-World Colleagues,

On 15 May, the Medieval Academy of America sponsored a Webinar on the Black Death:

The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19

SmartHanzi and DDB Access, kindly mentioned by Charles Muller, are basically interactive tools. Following this discussion and in liaise with Marius Meinhof, a feature was added to the applications (Windows versions) to produce a file with spaces between words. It was confirmed that this segmented text file can be used with AntConc.

The next step was to make a more effective dedicated tool. "Chinese Bulk Parser" can process multiple files with one mouse click. One just has to drag and drop files into the application window.

H-Diplo Article Review 951
20 May 2020

Zach Fredman.  “GIs and ‘Jeep girls’:  Sex and American Soldiers in Wartime China.”  Journal of Modern Chinese History 13:1 (2019):  76-101.  DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2019.1618627.

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Dear Colleagues,