I FRONTIERS OF HISTORY IN CHINA Volume 12 · Number 4 · December 2017 CONTENTS RESEARCH ARTICLES Zhiguo Ye 519 Remapping Chinese Cities: From Empire’s Political Centers to Battlefields of “Commercial Warfare” Xiaoping Sun 538 New Life Meets Real Life: Chinese Women in Nation Building and State Making, 1934–1949 Zach Fredman 566 Lofty Expectations and Bitter Reality: Chinese Interpreters for the US Army during the Second World War, 1941–1945 Lavinia Benedetti 599 Further Definition of Di Renjie’s Identity(ies) in Chinese History, Literature and Mass Media