Miscellaneous Announcements

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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Payment of EACS Membership (Correction)

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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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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CfP: “Censorship and Self-censorship – China and Chinese Studies”

European Journal of Chinese Studies; Volume 1; No. 1, 2020
Deadline: 1st Dec 2018
For its first edition, the European Journal of Chinese Studies invites scholars to submit papers dealing with aspects of censorship and self-censorship in pre-modern, modern, and contemporary China. We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the historical continuities and discontinuities of censorship, the language and discourses of censorship in Chinese and transnational settings.

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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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Special Issue on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

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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