Miscellaneous Announcements

Ghent Database of Medieval Chinese

by Ben Van
The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies is proud to announce the first public Beta version of its Database of Medieval Chinese Texts. It is the result of two projects and more than four years of work in each project, a collaboration between Ghent University, Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (Taiwan), and Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University).
The main focus of the current version is on early Chan texts and semi-vernacular Buddhist texts from the Dunhuang corpus (digitized and marked-up according to TEI standards), as well as on the variant graphical forms of Chinese characters extracted from the texts. The variant DB currently features more than 32.000 links between a variant and a specific text passage.For more information and a description of the project and its

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Call for papers: SPECIAL ISSUE OF Deportees, Exiles, Refugees Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Deadline: 30th Jun 2019
The online journal of studies on women’s memory “Deportees, Exiles, Refugees” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) announces a call for papers for a special issue focused on “Domestic violence against women in East Asian and South East Asian Countries: a multidisciplinary research” [provisional title]. The journal, published since 2004, aims principally to be a venue for analysis and reflection on the topic of displacement from women’s viewpoints, as well as for the collection and publication of documents, unpublished writings and oral histories. Since then, the journal has examined other related topics, especially the specific theme of violence against women and the abuse of femininityand maternity.

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Upcoming Fifth Biannual Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar Workshop: “Authorship and Authority in the Ancient World”

Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC
17–21st Jun 2019
Deadline: 15th Mar 2019
The International Center for the Study of Ancient Text Cultures (ICSATC), hosted at Renmin University of China, holds its fifth Ph.D. Student and Young Scholar workshop on June 17-21, 2019. Four renowned scholars from the fields of Ancient Chinese, Greek, and Biblical Literature will present lectures and seminars on specific topics. There also will be student research activities to complement the lectures and seminars. The principal language of instruction and interaction will be English.
Meeting Place: Renmin University of China, Beijing

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Call for Papers: International Conference “Taiwanese Philosophy and the Preservation of Confucian Tradition”

Ljubljana, Slovenia
10-12th Oct 2019
Deadline: 28th Feb 2019
Organized by University of Ljubljana, EARL Ljubljana, and TRCCS (Taiwan Research Center for Chinese Studies) in Taipei. Although the philosophical currents in modern and contemporary Taiwan belong to the most influential and important streams of thought in contemporary East Asian theory, they are still unrecognized as specifically Taiwanese. The main reasons for the immense importance of Taiwanese philosophy for East Asia and the contemporary world are twofold.

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Call for Papers: Housing Markets in the Greater China Area – Economic and Political Studies (EPS)

Deadline: 1st Jun 2019
Economic and Political Studies (EPS, http://www.tandfonline.com/REPS), an ESCI and Scopus listed journal hosted by Renmin University of China and published by Taylor & Francis Group, calls for papers for a special issue on “Housing Markets in the Greater China Area”.
The seemingly perennial surge in property prices has been the overarching theme for housing markets in Greater China since the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis, with the housing affordability in numerous cities now stretched to unsustainable levels. However, these runaway headline figures mask the fact that substantial regional dispersion in house prices, such as urban-rural disparities, still persists. More recently, the deceleration of China’s

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CCK Foundation Library Travel Grant 2019

Deadlines: 20th Mar & Oct 2019
Thanks to the continued support of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation the EACS also in 2019 is able to fund one-week visits for specialised research in Sinological libraries in Cambridge, Heidelberg, Leiden, London, Munich, Oxford or Paris.
Applications received before the two deadlines of March 20 and October 20 will be considered within 3 weeks after receipt.
Applicants should be Sinologists based permanently in Europe and preferably paid-up members of the EACS. Applications from non-members will be considered, especially in case of students and young scholars (up to 35 years), if accompanied by a recommendation letter from an EACS member.

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Call For Papers: Marxism in East Asia and beyond

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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Call for submission for the journal “Bamboo and Silk”

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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Call For Submissions – New Book Series: “Contemporary China Studies: Past, Present and Future”

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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