| Number 179 June 2020 |
The Twenty-First Century Review
The 100th Anniversary of Max Weber’s Death
4
A Preliminary Analysis of Max Weber’s Conception of the State
Liente Hung
20
The Lessons of Max Weber’s Elite Democracy Theory to Contemporary China
Yang Shang-ju
33
Reflections on the Contemporary Implications of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Kwok Chi
Research Articles
45
Soviet-Mongolian Relations in the Late 1920s: The “Ryskulov Incident”
Gu Ji-kun
61
The Product of the Great Power’s Competition: A Preliminary Study of the 1945 Mongolian Independence Referendum
Bai Lin
76
The Sino-Mongolian Border Demarcation (Part I): A Contest among “Comrades and Brothers”
Liu Xiao-yuan
99
The Characteristics and Trend of the Research on the History of Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army after the Second Sino-Japanese War
Hao Jiang-dong
Research Notes
113
Wartime Everydayness: Beyond the Battlefield in China’s Second World War
Hans van de Ven
View on the World
133
Who is Messiah?: On the Religious Thoughts in Russian Art in the Nineteenth Century
Yu Run-sheng
Book Reviews
142
Global History and the May Fourth New Culture Movement: A Review on Eugene W. Qiu, Enlightenment, Rationality and Modernity: The Enlightenment Movement in Modern China, 1895-1925
Zhao Bing
151
A Global History of the Sikh Policemen: A Review on Yin Cao, From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945
Jiang Jia-xin
160
Tripartite Interactions
162
From the Editor’s Desk