Members’ Publications: Wang Lianming
Focusing on three Jesuit churches and
Publications by Members Archive
Members’ Publications: Merle Schatz and Laura De Giorgi (together with Peter Ludes)
The local experiences of foreigners in
Members’ Publications: Minna Törmä
Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects is already out as e-publication and the print version will appear June 16th.
Call for Papers: Formulaicity and idiomaticity in CFL and CSL
Deadline: 31st Aug 2019
The CASRI research group “Formulaic language, idioms, situation-bound utterances” is seeking contributions to a journal special issue or a monograph focused on formulaicity and idiomaticity in Chinese as a foreign or second language (CFL/CSL respectively).
A formulaic sequence is defined by Wray (2000, p. 465) as “a sequence, continuous or discontinuous, of words or other elements, which is, or appears to be, prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis”. The definition is a broad one
Call for Papers: Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforsch – 2019 Edition
Deadline: 1st Aug 2019
The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasien-forschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 42, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2019‒20. All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review. The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (BJOAF) has been published since 1978 by the Faculty of East Asian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. It serves as an international forum for academic publi-cations on East Asian research, with individual research
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 We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the historical continuities and discontinuities of censorship, the language and discourses of censorship in Chinese and transnational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.
Economic and Political Studies (EPS) article abstracts of Volume 6 Number 2, 2018
Economic and Political Studies, a China-focussed academic journal recently published its issue 2 vol. 6, 2018
The full texts are available online at www.tandfonline.com/reps
Unpacking the patterns of corporate restructuring during China’s SOE reform
Xiaojun Li and Jean C. Oi
Abstract
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China have undergone significant restructuring since the mid-1990s. To date, scholars have devoted considerable attention to the constraints upon and motives for corporate restructuring in China.
Member’s Publication: Wenxin Duihua 文心對話
A Dialogue on The Literary Mind / The Core of Writing, a bilingual collection of papers discussing the Chinese literary and aesthetic tradition indelibly marked by the milestone of Wenxin Diaolong 文心雕龍. This work collects the contributions of six Chinese and Italian authors (such as Alessandra Lavagnino and Zhang Shaokang) who shared their research and perspectives, enriched the literary and aesthetic landscape with deep reflections and original connections, and enhanced a polyphonic dialogue stemming from Liu Xie’s heritage.
Economic and Political Studies, Vol. 5 No. 4, 2017
Dear Colleagues, You may be interested in viewing the article abstracts of Volume 5 Number 4, 2017 of Economic and Political Studies (EPS) as follows. Their fulltexts are available online at www.tandfonline.com/reps . Grassland tenure, livelihood assets and pastoralists’ resilience: evidence and empirical analyses from western China
Shuhao Tan and Zhongchun Tan, Abstract: Pastoralists in western China are highly vulnerable due to harsh natural conditions and the poor socioeconomic environment they confront. More than 50% of the pastoralists in major grassland areas are living below the survival line; moreover, around 90% of the usable grasslands in China have been
The Journal of China and International Relations (JCIR) 中国与国际关系学刊, Vol 5, No 1 (2017)
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The “Asia-Pacific Dream”: Is China Using Economic Integration Initiatives as Ideological Weapons? – On The Link Between Free Trade Agreements, Soft Power and “Universal Values”
Anke Berndzen
Xi Jinping and The Sino – Latin American Relations in The 21st Century: Facing The Beginning of A New Phase?
Diego Leiva Van de Maele
The Eurasian Economic Union: A Brittle Road Block on China’s “One Belt – One Road” – A Liberal Perspective
Wolfgang Zank
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New book series in Chinese Studies: Leipziger Sinologische Studien / 萊比錫漢學研究叢書
The editors are proud to announce the publication of a new series in Chinese Studies at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Edited by Philip Clart and Elisabeth Kaske and published by Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipziger Sinologische Studien will be devoted mostly to German-language monographs and edited volumes. The inaugural volume has just appeared:
Jörg Henning Hüsemann. Das Altertum vergegenwärtigen: Eine Studie zum Shuijing zhu des Li Daoyuan [Presenting Antiquity: A Study of Li Daoyuan’s Shuijing zhu]. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2017. 371 pages, ISBN 978-3-96023-101-1. €33 (paperback). (In German)
Abstract: Rivers have shaped the history and culture of Imperial China and have been treated in many genres of Chinese writing, including poetry, travelogues, historiography,
Journal of Chinese Humanities has released Volume 3.1 on the subject “Myth and Legend in Ancient China”
This issue includes articles from top Chinese scholars and a piece by Early China editor Sarah Allan that responds to new findings out of China with implications for the historicity of the Xia Dynasty.
You can read abstracts on our website, www.journalofchinesehumanities.com and you can subscribe by going to our publisher’s page, www.brill.com/JOCH.
Our next issue is on the theme Wei and Jin Dynasty Xuan Xue, and we are now accepting submissions. See our website for submission details.
TABLE OF CONTENTS – Journal of Chinese Humanities, Vol. 3.1: MYTH AND LEGEND IN ANCIENT CHINA; February 2017
A New Model in the Study of Chinese Mythology
Author: LIU Yuqing
pp.: 1-22
Ming Qing Yanjiu XX 2016
MING QING YANJIU ISSN 1724-8574 Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Dept. of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies Published by BRILL Editor Donatella Guida (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) Editorial Board Rüdiger Breuer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Craig Clunas (University of Oxford), Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Maram Epstein (University of Oregon), Guo […]
New Issue: Ming Qing Studies 2016
edited by Paolo Santangelo (Sapienza University of Rome)
We are glad to inform you that the new edition of Ming Qing Studies 2016 has been finally issued. Digital and hard copies can be purchased on-line at “Aracne Editrice” (see contents below)
Ming Qing Studies 2015
Contents 11 Preface by PAOLO SANTANGELO 15 Making sense of Incompleteness: Approximations of Utopia in Liang Qichao’s Xin Zhongguo Weilai Ji and Chen Tianhua’s Shizi Hou. LORENZO ANDOLFATTO 45 Travelling in a Thronged Desert. GIORGIO CASACCHIA 57 The Tension between the Realistic and Imaginary Elements in Alexander’s Illustration. CHEN YUSHU 陈妤姝 87 Windows onto […]
Véronique Alexandre Journeau, Poétique de la musique chinoise, Préface de Rémi Mathieu, Paris, L’Harmattan, “L’univers esthétique”. 2015
« Dans la pensée chinoise, la musique est une partie du monde, sinon le monde lui-même en ses manifestations sonores. Œuvre humaine, elle constitue l’essence de la culture, au même titre que l’écriture ou la peinture, mais elle est avant cela l’expression de la nature, voire du 道 dao qui génère les êtres et leur […]
Oriens Extremus (52.2013) „Chinese Reflections on the Exile Experience after 1949“ Now Available
Volume 52, edited by Thomas Fröhlich and Brigit Knüsel Adamec, will be a special volume devoted to Chinese Reflections on the Exile Experience after 1949. China’s 20th century was a century marked by exile. The multifarious experience of exile is arguably one of the salient features of a distinction, as historical periods, between the 19th […]
Daria Berg. “Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700” Routledge, 2013.
Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This […]
L’Archicube, revue semestrielle publiée par l’a-Ulm, Association des anciens élèves, élèves et amis de l’École normale supérieure
L’ARCHICUBE est la revue semestrielle publiée par l’a-Ulm, Association des anciens élèves, élèves et amis de l’École normale supérieure. Elle consacre dans son numéro 17 de décembre 2014 un dossier de 140 pages à Chine, Japon, regards pour aujourd’hui en faisant, comme toujours, appel à des spécialistes des disciplines les plus variées, écrivains, sinologues, historiens, […]
Tian Yuan Tan and Paolo Santangelo, Passion, Romance, and Qing: The World of Emotions and States of Mind in Peony Pavilion (3 vols.). Leiden, Boston: Brill. (Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia series)
“Passion, Love, and Qing examines the vitality of Peony Pavilion, the most famous drama in Ming China (1368-1644), through four essays (by Isabella Falaschi, Paolo Santangelo, Tian Yuan Tan, and Rossella Ferrari) and an extensive Glossary of specific terms and expressions related to the representation of emotions and states of mind. It explores the evolution […]
Harriet Zurndorfer. “Gender Issues in Traditional China” Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford 2014.
From the introduction: “The study of pre-20th century gender issues in China began in the 1970s with Margery Wolf’s groundbreaking anthropological analysis of women and the family in rural Taiwan. Her Stanford University 1972 publication Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan (see Wolf 1972, cited under Marriage and Family) challenged the idea that Chinese […]
New Issue: Early China (Journal)
EC 35-36 (2012-2013) is now in print. This volume is dedicated to Li Xueqin (s. photo) and guest-edited by Xing Wen. It includes interviews with Li Xueqin by Sarah Allan and Wang Tao; articles by David Keightley, Constance Cook, Xing Wen, Shu CHEN, Harold Roth, Donald Harper, Jeffrey Riegel, Crispin Williams, Yau Shun-chiu, Robin Yates, […]
Chang, Ting. “Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris”, Ashgate, 2013.
“Travel, Collecting, and Museums of Asian Art in Nineteenth-Century Paris” with Ashgate. This book examines a history of contact between modern Europe and East Asia through three collectors: Henri Cernuschi, Emile Guimet, and Edmond de Goncourt. Drawing on a wealth of material including European travelogues of the East and Asian reports of the West, Ting Chang explores the politics of mobility
Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena, and Rudolf G. Wagner. “Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870-1930) Changing Ways of Thought”
“This is a set of pioneering studies on Chinese encyclopaedias of modern knowledge (1870-1930). At a transitional time when modern knowledge was sought after yet few modern schools were available, these works were crucial sources of information for an entire generation.
This volume investigates many of these encyclopaedias, which were never reprinted and are hardly known even to specialists, for the first time. The contributors to this collection all specialize in the period in question
Exhibition / Publication: Maria Khayutina (ed.), Qin – The Eternal Emperor and His Terracotta Warriors
Bern, Switzerland
15th Mar – 17th Nov 2013
The present volume represents an accompanying publication to the exhibition “Qin – The eternal emperor and his terracotta warriors” at the Bernisches Historisches Museum.
The exhibition focuses on the formation of the Chinese Empire, the figure of the First Emperor (r. 246/221–210 BC) and his
Clart, Philip. Chinese and European Perspectives on the Study of Chinese Popular Religions. 中國民間宗教、民間信仰研究之中歐視角
This volume results from a conference held at the University of Leipzig (Germany) in the fall of 2010. Of the book's twelve chapters, five are in Chinese and seven in English. The authors include: Andreas Berndt, Nikolas Broy, Adam Yuet Chau, Gao Hongxia, Vincent Goossaert, Barend J. ter Haar, Volker Olles, Shao Yong, Tang Lixing, Xiaobing Wang-Riese, Xu Maoming, and Zhou Yumin.
Richter, Matthias L. The Embodied Text — Establishing Textual Identity in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 3.
Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2013.
In The Embodied Text Matthias L. Richter offers an exemplary study of the ca. 300 BCE Chinese manuscript *Min zhi fumu 民之父母, exploring significant differences between the Warring States manuscript text and its transmitted early imperial counterparts