Deadline: 15th Oct 2019
Oriens Extremus invites contributions to a special section on Marxism in East Asia and beyond.
2017 and 2018 mark several anniversaries regarding Marxism-Leninism: 100 years of the October Revolution, 150 years of the Capital, 170 years of the Communist Manifesto, and Karl Marx’s 200th birthday. Despite the crisis of the Marxist paradigm after the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism- Leninism remains an important legacy in China and Korea, with Japanese intellectuals having played a major role as transmitters in the past. Topics for submission may include, but are not limited to:
– ways of transmission of Marxism-Leninism

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Dear members,

The recently circulated EACS Newsletter advises members to “send payments to the EACS Treasurer Claude Chevaleyre via bank transfer or Paypal” (EACS Membership Payment, p. 17). This is a mistake. Can we please ask that members follow the instructions on the EACS website (http://chinesestudies.eu/?page_id=1210) and continue to send payments to Michael Schimmelpfennig?

Thank you for your co-operation.

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Access to our latest newsletter (#53)

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Bamboo and Silk is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts of Wuhan University and published by Brill. It is co-edited by Professor Chen Wei of Wuhan University, China and Professor Edward L. Shaughnessy of the University of Chicago, USA. The journal is published in print and also digitally available at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/24689246.
The journal focuses on unearthed Chinese bamboo and silk manuscripts from the

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Following a new partnership with University of Leon Press (Spain), Confucius Institute of University of Leon, Spain is pleased to announce a highly anticipated new book series with China Studies book imprint “Contemporary China Studies: Past, Present and Future”. The China Studies book imprint aims to set new standards in participatory knowledge creation and scholarly publication. This series, which features monographs, takes a broad view of the Chinese world.

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Economic and Political Studies (EPS)
Vol. 6 No. 3, 2018
Economic and Political Studies (EPS) dedicates its Volume 6 Number 3, 2018 to academic discussion on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, also known as OBOR). You may be interested in viewing the article abstracts as follows. Their fulltexts are available online at www.tandfonline.com/reps.
Geoeconomics with Chinese characteristics: the BRI and China’s evolving grand strategy
Mark Beeson

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Deadline: 15th Jan 2019
The June 2019 issue will be dedicated to the meaning of motifs and themes in Chinese tomb art from the Zhou till Tang Dynasties. Motifs discovered in tomb complexes – on mural paintings, relief carvings, coffins or on burial goods – often tend to be regarded in an isolated manner, taken out of their original context. However, only by contextualising the individual scenes within the framework of the whole composition, and seeking the relations between the pictorial contents and the architectural elements, can a solid basis for

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