Calls for Papers Archive

Deadline: 20th May 2026

The accelerating integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into digital infrastructures represents a profound transformation in contemporary media environments and governance systems. AI-driven platforms, algorithmic recommendation systems, and automated content moderation increasingly shape how information circulates, how public discourse is structured, and how political authority is exercised across different societies. These developments raise important questions about algorithmic governance, digital sovereignty, media regulation, and the broader political implications of AI-mediated communication.

This special issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary scholarship examining the evolving relationships between AI technologies, media systems, and governance practices. We welcome contributions that critically explore how algorithmic systems influence media production, platform governance, public communication, and political power across diverse institutional and geopolitical contexts.

We invite empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions from scholars working in communication and media studies, political science, digital governance, sociology, science and technology studies, and related disciplines. Submissions may focus on China, or adopt comparative and transnational perspectives.… Read more ⤻

Olomouc Asian Studies (OLAS), Vol. 6
Submission deadline: 30th Apr 2026
Publisher: Palacký University Olomouc

Type of publication: Open Access (DOI assigned to each chapter), Print on Demand
Language of publication: English
Fields of research: Humanities, Social Sciences, Asian Studies
Expected publication date: Fall 2027 (no publication fees)

This collective monograph focuses on Asian experiences with truths, tensions, and technologies. We invite contributions that explore these multifaceted experiences, using a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary approaches, with global engagements being a welcome perspective.

Some of the questions we encourage contributors to engage with are:
Truths: In a post-truth era where fake news is proliferating, how are truths produced, contested, and circulated in Asia and beyond? How do they manifest in different societal contexts?
Tensions: How do tensions unfold within Asia? How can they be mitigated or reduced?
Technologies: How do technologies bring certain truths to the fore and obscure others? What are the implications?

The volume follows up on the 19th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (acas.upol.cz)… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 15th Jan 2026

Guest editors : Joachim Boittout (Université Paris Cité) and Christopher K. Tong (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

While nonhuman animals have gained an increasingly noticeable place in the histories of the Western hemisphere and Asian countries over the past thirty years, China, in comparison, seems still underrepresented. This dynamic academic trend, following the already much-discussed “animal turn,” focuses on the multifarious realities of animal life in human narratives. Acknowledging the importance of groundbreaking works that explored, for instance, the religious significance and evolving meanings of some animals in cosmological and political representations, this special issue seeks to encompass the diversity of the approaches and the disciplines involved in historical investigations of past animal lives, their interactions with humans, and how they effected changes in human societies.

This special issue of Études Chinoises welcomes contributions engaging with human–animal relations in the diversity of their historical dimensions, and encourages works that tackle the issues raised by the cohabitation of humans and non-humans in the Anthropocene.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 1st Jan 2026

Whether it is the ongoing trade war between the US and the People’s Republic of China, geopolitical tensions and conflicts all over the world – including the Taiwan strait – or extreme weathers like heat waves currently occurring in many world regions: all of these issues have in common that nowadays there is no issue of global relevance in which China is not involved in one way or another. Today, China is still producing about one-third of global carbon emissions. However, China is also globally leading in the development, production, and establishment of climate-friendly technologies such as solar energy panels and electric vehicles. China is thus one of the key players in addressing humanity’s greatest challenge in the coming decades. Both reducing and addressing global warming. These and other issues of great topicality and global relevance are therefore the main focus of our special issue “China – Politics and Policy”.
Statistics, Politics and Policy invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the study of Chinese politics and policy.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia is pleased to invite submissions for our upcoming special issue: “Living with ChatGPT: Social, Psychological, and Economic Impacts of Generative AI in East Asia”, Guest Editors are Dr. Weiwen Yu & Dr. Chun Shao.

This special issue moves beyond technical assessments and policy analyses to foreground the lived experiences of AI in East Asia. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that examine how generative AI technologies both shape—and are shaped by—the cultural norms, economic realities, and psychological landscapes of the region.

The JCEA invites conceptual, methodological, and empirical studies on topics including (but not limited to):

• AI tools in education: opportunities, academic integrity, evolving pedagogy
• Generative AI in creative industries: literature, art, film, fan culture
• Language, translation, and cultural nuance in AI-generated content
• Economic implications: automation, gig work, productivity, deskilling
• AI and emotional labor: companionship, counseling, social bots
• Public perceptions, moral panics, and regulatory debates
• Everyday resistance, adaptation, and creative appropriation of AI tools
• Cross-societal variations in adoption, perception, and use of generative AI in East Asia

👉 Full CFP details are available here: https://jceasia.org/cfp2025… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 20th Aug 2025

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Starting from the legacy of this conflict, we shall devote the tenth Issue of DIVE-IN to historical narratives, memories and literary representations of war and violence in a feminine perspective by taking as a focus East and South East Asia in the contemporary era. Countries in this part of the world have in various ways intercepted Western trajectories as sites of war involving Europe and US. They have also experienced (de-)colonization, both as objects and subjects of foreign domination. The Issue will, thus, present itself as an occasion to integrate the area perspective into a global reflection by extending to literary, cultural and historical studies.

https://dive-in.unibo.it/announcement/view/715

The present Issue aims to enrich the historical narratives of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries, which are more often represented as dense with political and economic events, but not as equally rich in terms of social and cultural insights.… Read more ⤻

6-7th Nov 2025
Birmingham City University
Deadline (Abstracts): 18th Apr 2025

With the rise of Chinese digital platforms and social media, a new landscape of visual cultural production and artistic communication has emerged, reshaping the ways of art making and aesthetics, the cultures and politics of display, and stimulating new participatory approaches in diversity. From the early days of bulletin board systems (BBS) like ‘Shui Mu Tsing Hua’ (1995) to the proliferation of platforms like WeChat (2011), Douyin (2016)/TikTok (2017), Kuaishou (2011), Weibo (2009), QQ (1999), and Xiaohongshu (Rednote) (2013), Chinese social media have become a vital site for artistic expression, community engagement, and political discourse. The development of social media entangled with critical issues of gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity, and identities has broadened the boundaries of existing concepts of contemporary art and visual culture, providing new methods, conditions and aesthetics.

The rapidly evolving social media with ‘Chinese characteristics’ has facilitated a wave of contemporary Chinese art and visual culture in various forms with key representations including Zhang Peili, Miao Ying, Cao Fei, Ge Yulu, Lin Ke, Jiao Xingtao, Huang Sunquan, and many others.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 25th Apr 2025

Dechun Zhang (University of Copenhagen) and Wenting Yu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) are organizing a special issue at Journal of Chinese Current Affairs (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/cca/call-for-papers?pbEditor=true) titled “Digital China: Technology, Governance, and the Reshaping of Society.”

This special issue examines the profound impact of digital technology on society, governance, and public life, with a focus on China’s rapid digital transformation. As technologies such as AI, IoT, and big data reshape daily life, their influence on political, economic, and social structures is equally significant. We aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of China’s evolving digital society, its global influence, and the challenges it presents for governance, online participation, policy, and culture. We welcome both empirical studies (qualitative, quantitative, computational, and mixed-methods) and theoretical contributions addressing various aspects of the digital society. Contributors are invited to explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Digital Governance & State Control
AI, Big Data & Surveillance
Digital Propaganda & Nationalism
Online Activism & Political Participation
Digital Authoritarianism & International Propaganda
Cultural Transformation & Social Media
E-commerce & Smart Cities
Data Protection & Privacy Laws
Digital Health & Healthcare Technology
Technology & Social Inequality
Technology & Environmental Surveillance
Ethics of AI & Digital Technologies

The deadline for abstract submission is April 25.… Read more ⤻

GEI, Braunschweig, Germany
25-26th Apr 2025
Deadline (Abstracts): 17th Apr 2025

As we enter the 2020s, digital technologies—such as big data analytics and generative AI—have become increasingly integrated into education. Promoted in national and international policy documents as transformative tools capable of addressing enduring challenges like educational disparities and the constraints of standardized evaluation, these technologies have spurred signifi-cant optimism. Concurrently, a growing body of scholarship calls for a critical examination of such techno-optimism. Researchers are increasingly focused on uncovering the discourse and power dynamics that underpin the integration of digital technologies in education, as well as conducting fieldwork to explore their localized enactments and social effects.

As a part of the research project “The Digital Transformation of School Education in China: Policies, Governance Structures and Local Stakeholders,” this workshop aims to gathering schol-ars who adopt qualitative research methods to address international relevant topics within Chi-nese contexts, including but not limited to:

1. Philosophical, Historical, and Socio-Cultural Perspectives:
   How have digital technologies been articulated and deployed within China’s social, cultural and educational context?

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Deadline (Abstacts): 25th Apr 2025

The Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (JCCA) welcomes submissions for a special issue on Digital China
Guest Editor: Dechun Zhang (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) & Wenting Yu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

The rise of the internet and social media has profoundly shaped society’s transition into the digital age, integrating information and communication technologies into all aspects of life, including home, work, education, and recreation (Katzenbach & Bächle, 2019). In recent years, China has emerged as a global leader in digital innovation, driving transformative changes across various sectors. From artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to social media platforms and e-commerce ecosystems, China’s digital advancements are reshaping not only its domestic society but also influencing global technological landscapes. These technologies are now deeply embedded in daily life, fundamentally altering communication, work, governance, and entertainment. Their rapid adoption has redefined social interactions (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), access to information (Jiang, 2014), and participation in economic and political activities (Wang, Hu & Xiong, 2024; Yang, 2009).… Read more ⤻

13-15th Nov 2025
University of Münster, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

Religious traditions have long served as dynamic vehicles for the transfer and transformation of cultural knowledge across societies. In 19th and 20th century Asia, profound political, social, and cultural changes affected interactions between religious actors, institutions, and ideas, fostering unprecedented movements of knowledge within and beyond religious communities. This conference seeks to explore the mechanisms, actors, spaces and outcomes of intercultural knowledge transfer with a particular focus on East Asian and Indo-Persian regions. By examining these processes, the conference aims to deepen our understanding of how religious frameworks influenced the production, adaptation, and dissemination of knowledge across cultures. We invite papers that engage with the central question: How did religious contexts facilitate the transfer and transformation of knowledge in, about and across Asia from early modern times to the 20th century?

Send Abstracts to: knowledgetransfer2025@uni-muenster.de

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And presentations at the CCVA Symposium, Beijing Dangdai Art Fair, the National Agricultural Exhibition Centre, 22 May 2025
Building History: Collecting Chinese Contemporary Art
Abstract due: 7th Mar 2025

In the past three decades, the collection of contemporary Chinese art has undergone a profound evolution with the development of the market economic system and the deepening of globalisation. From local collectors, such as Song Wei, an entrepreneur in Beijing who ‘sponsored’ 1989 China Avant Garde Exhibition by collecting the works exhibited, to overseas connoisseurs, who organised diplomatic residences and overseas exhibitions in the 1990s, collecting art has played an instrumental role in the formation of China’s contemporary art scene. In the 2000s, these transnational exchanges and the burgeoning art market catalysed the museum boom in China. Later, in 2012, the remarkable donation of major Chinese contemporary art collector Dr. Uli Sigg’s to M+ Museum in Hong Kong and the subsequent presentations of this collection after M+’s opening in 2021 were groundbreaking for developing the concept of art collections.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Nov 2025

The editors of JEACS invite submissions of articles for an upcoming special issue tentatively titled “Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture”, to be published in 2026.

The chief goal of this issue is to shift the focus away from the mainstream of ink studies (e.g. calligraphy and ink paintings) to instead draw out the murky backwaters of those more unconventional, unexpected, or understudied aspects such as tattoos, marginalia, metaphor, and materiality. In addition, it seeks to apply fresh perspectives and frameworks to the study of ink from fields like gender and religious studies, sensory history, and animal ethics. Contributions may focus on any time period up to and including the present, and may belong to any discipline(s) within the Humanities and Social Sciences. We also welcome transregional studies involving other cultures.
The issue also hopes to publish a collation of short interviews with ink practitioners such as tattooists, printers, archivists, and calligraphers.… Read more ⤻

27–29th Nov 2025
Trier University, Germany
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025

The China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and Beyond Europe (CERPE) is delighted to announce the 8th annual workshop, which will focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of Chinese migration and the complex negotiations of identities by Sinophone diasporas. This workshop seeks to deepen our understanding of transnational Chinese migrations and cultural representations from a broad spectrum of perspectives.

Historically, Chinese migration has been driven by diverse motivations, ranging from economic pursuits like the mid-19th century Gold Rush in the United States, to seeking educational and entrepreneurial opportunities in the 20th century and beyond. In contemporary times, despite challenges such as geopolitical conflicts, economic downturns, and policies promoting decoupling and isolationism, Sinophone diasporas continue to evolve and diversify. This has resulted also in novel diasporic and societal responses in countries of migration destinations.
Moreover, advancements in technology have catalyzed the formation of dynamic online communities and have fostered a rich variety of cultural and artistic expressions among Chinese migrants and their descendants.… Read more ⤻

27th Jun 2025
Deadline: 31st Mar 2025
School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design, and visual culture through interdisciplinary practices and theoretical studies. Following the 17-year success of our CCVA Annual Conference, which invites researchers, curators, artists, designers, and practitioners at all stages of their careers to share the latest research development on the theme proposed each year, we inaugurated the first CCVA PhD Forum on June 30th, 2023. This new forum provided a platform for scholars and doctoral students from the UK, China, and Austria, among other locations, to present and engage in dialogue about their doctoral research. In the past two forums (2023 and 2024), we have welcomed nearly 30 PhD students and newly awarded PhDs from universities from the UK, the mainland Europe and Asia, to give presentations. The universities include University of Oxford, the Glasgow School of Art, University of the Arts London, University of Vienna, University of Amsterdam, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, etc.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Apr 2025

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 48, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2025‒26.

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 publications on East Asian research.

To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have received coverage in the Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, please view the PDF files of back issues at https://www.oaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/forschung/bjoaf/index.html.en

Authors are kindly requested to use our template (https://www.oaw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/forschung/bjoaf/content/bjoaf-template.docx) and to
send their paper as an email attachment to ‹ bjoaf@rub.de › by April 30, 2025.

All papers submitted will undergo double-blind peer review.

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7-8th Jul 2025
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Submission deadline: 31st Jan 2025

We invite (in particular, but not exclusively) contributions from researchers in the fields of Sinology, East Asian Studies, Political Sciences, Philosophy/Ethics, Innovation Research as well as practical reports and contributions to discussions from universities, research centers and think tanks. We encourage contributions that critically reflect on how academic cooperation with China is perceived and shaped in Europe today and what implications this has or could have for cooperation with other countries. In this context, we want to examine various dimensions such as the legal framework for international partnerships, political and economic considerations and the risks for the innovative capacity of European research. Furthermore, it is important for us to consider societal interests and European values that shape our cooperation efforts and to consider the ethical implications of international scientific cooperation amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions. The aim of this conference is to highlight key findings and to open questions related to these collaborations and to draw lessons from past experiences that may be useful for future international cooperation in education and research with (countries other than) China.… Read more ⤻

Submission deadline: May 4th 2025

A special issue of the review “mediAzioni” (an international open-access, refereed journal that promotes interdisciplinary work in the humanities, https://mediazioni.unibo.it/), titled “Advanced Technologies, Methods and Materials for Human Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Perspective,” is scheduled for November 2025 and will be edited by: Sabrina Ardizzoni, Marta Aurora, Claudia Buffagni, Anna Di Toro, Imsuk Jung, Andrea Scibetta (University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy).
The volume will gather research contributions related to:

• Identification of best practices and challenges in linguistic and cultural mediation in healthcare settings, with conversational analysis of mediated doctor-patient interaction.
• Data collection and reflections on narrative medicine as a methodology for improving relationships among doctors, patients, and caregivers.
• Analysis of corpora of audiovisual materials related to specialist-patient interactions and patient narratives.
• Data collection on robots and new technologies in caregiving, particularly regarding healthcare systems in East Asian countries where such tools are already widespread.… Read more ⤻

Deadline (abstracts): 15th Nov 2024

This Call for Abstracts is a component of the Project “The Legal Dimension of China’s Presence in Latin America: Opportunities, Risks, and Responses” co-led by Dr. Monika Prusinowska (University of Barcelona) and Dr. Daniel Sprick (University of Cologne) as a part of the Cologne International Forum Innovative Tandem Collaboration.

The Project seeks to investigate the understudied intersection of China’s growing influence in Latin America and its legal implications. While economic, social, and political aspects have received considerable attention, the complex legal landscape remains relatively unexplored. This Project is intended to create a space, which could seed a community of expertise on the nexus of China, Latin America and Law. It offers an opportunity to contribute to this emerging field of study. We invite both junior and senior researchers to participate.

About the Project Stages:

Abstracts and Workshop

Following the submission of abstracts, selected participants will be invited to a workshop held at the University of Barcelona, Spain (see the timeline below).… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 31st Aug 2024
Ed. Chris Berry, Haina Jin

Chinese cinemas have always been characterised by transborder flows, both of foreign films flowing in and Sinophone films flowing out. What foreign films have been popular in Chinese-language territories, with what audiences, when, and why? What Chinese-language films have found audiences overseas, in what places, when, and why? And what forces and practices have shaped those transborder flows and what are the impacts and results of those flows? This special issue of Journal of Chinese Film Studies seeks to spotlight these under-explored topics. We seek proposals for 6,000-8,000 word scholarly articles on aspects of transborder flows and Chinese cinemas.

The persistent dominance of the outdated understanding of both national cinema as films produced in a certain territory and cinema as simply film texts has left transborder flows long neglected. Work such as Andrew Higson’s redefinition of national cinema as films viewed within a certain territory back in 1989 is now combining with research on distribution and exhibition by scholars such as Li Daoxin, Li Jie, Liu Guangyu, and Zhou Chenshu, along with work on transborder flows by scholars such as Huang Xuelei, Su Tao and Fu Yongchun to break the logjam and stimulate greater interest in the character and role of transborder flows in Chinese cinemas.… Read more ⤻

Schwerte, Germany
27-28 Jul 2024
Registration Deadline 15th Apr 2024

The “Iserlohn Network” is a loose circle of young social scientists working on China. Our annual workshop will be held from 27 to 28 July 2024 at Haus Villigst outside the town of Schwerte.

The workshop aims at young scholars looking to discuss their master’s theses, dissertations and habilitations as well as their completed or ongoing research projects, applications and academic articles in an informal setting. Beyond social science research on the Sinophone world, we also particularly welcome interdisciplinary work. Participants may present thematic trends and new findings from their own projects, their work on theoretical categorisations and practical methodology as well as related challenges. The workshop is intended as a platform for specific problems and receiving
constructive peer feedback.

We are looking forward to a diverse range of contributions! To facilitate networking among young sinology scholars, participation without a presentation is also possible.

Download the official announcement’s PDF:

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Center for Modern East Asian Studies, Göttingen University, Germany
15-16th Nov 2024
Deadline: 30th Apr 2024

Organizers: Dr. Henrike Rudolph, Dr. Bertram Lang (Göttingen University)
In Western political science literature, political passivity is generally regarded either as a symptom of weakening democratic institutions or, if it is observed in an illiberal regime, as an expression of citizens’ acquiescence with authoritarian rule. This binary view in which civic engagement is situated on the democratic end of the spectrum of political systems, while “passive obedience” is associated with non-democratic rule, assumes that individual agency in the public sphere is preconditioned by a clear division of state and civil society as is characteristic of liberal democracies. On the contrary, autocratic systems are believed to offer little to no space for political activism beyond the ruling party or government. There is, however, also the possibility of constituting an alternative dichotomy in which the opposite of political passivity is not civic engagement but mobilization.… Read more ⤻

17 & 18th Oct 2024
Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Deadline: 31st Mar 2024

D2iA – Asian Dynamics, Interactions, Interculturality – Until the arrival of various modern means of locomotion, there was “no alternative to walking for the vast majority of people”, as tells us Joseph A. Amato. Moving on foot seemed to be a necessity in many situations and, as Antoine de Baecque points out, walking is through time “a continual reinvention of a pedestrian tradition”: from shepherds and pedlars in the Alps to communities of Compagnonnage, from Tuareg caravanners to the Sami, not forgetting certain Native Americans such as the Sioux, there are peoples, practices and trades “whose very identity is pedestrian”.

What about East Asia, where, depending on the region, it took a relatively long time to modernise certain modes of transport? To what extent did this human “animal machine” made for the terrestrial locomotion, as described by the physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey, play a part in weaving the remarkable Est-Asian network, perhaps more often than we think by treading on paths, roads and tracks?… Read more ⤻

University of Malta, Spain
Deadline: 10th Mar 2024

We are pleased to announce an open call for papers for an edited volume titled “China and the Mediterranean in History”. It will be edited by Wei Chen and Dennis Mizzi from the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Malta, with an anticipated publication date by the end of 2025.

The volume will explore the historical interactions between China and the Mediterranean from antiquity to the present by looking, among other things, at religious and cultural interactions, migration, foodways, material and technological exchange, literature, and language. The aim is to bridge the chasm between two major area studies—China and the Mediterranean—and show how this can be mutually beneficial.

We extend an invitation to scholars immersed in the examination of interactions between these two regions to submit abstracts (max. 300 words) for publication in the volume. Abstracts should be submitted by no later than 10 March 2024 to amcs@um.edu.mt.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 17th Dec 2023

For its fifth volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS) invites scholars to submit papers on Exegesis and Commentary in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that consider commentary as textual material and analyse its linguistic, stylistic, and rhetorical dimensions. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Margins, marginality, and page layout,
• Commentaries, legitimacy, and canonization,
• Gloss, elucidation, explanation, and translation,
• Ways of rephrasing, relocating, illustrating, re-expressing,
• Layers of exegetical texts: accumulation, digression, or dialogue,
• Intellectual traditions and knowledge transmission,
• Types of relations between base text and commentaries,
• Commentaries as separate texts,
• Genre-dependent commentaries,
• Reading transformations and the performativity of commentary,
• Self-commentary.

Deadline: December 17th 2023

Papers written in English (max. 10,000 words) should be supplemented with an abstract and 5 keywords in both English and Chinese, and should follow the Author Guidelines and Style Sheet provided on the submission webpage:
https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/about/submissions… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Apr 2023

The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 46, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2023‒24. 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 publications on East Asian research.
To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have received coverage in the Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies, please view the PDF files of back issues (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oaw/en/bjoaf.shtml).
Authors are kindly requested to use our template (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/oaw/en/bjoaf-template.docx) and to send their paper as an email attachment to ‹ bjoaf@rub.de › by April 30, 2023.

Download this announcement’s PDF:

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Among Chinese classics, the Book of Changes (or I Ching, Yijing) has been immensely popular among Western readers because of its graphic images, its method of divination, and its philosophy of change. But the Book of Changes is notoriously difficult to read due to its complex textual body and its competing commentarial traditions. The problem is further compounded by differing renditions of the text in western languages, causing a confusion as to how to approach this fascinating text.

For the first time in English, Dao Companion to the Book of Changes will provide the full scope of current scholarship on the Book of Changes. Scheduled to be published by Springer in 2024, this volume will address three fundamental issues:

(1) How do we make sense of the original text?
(2) How do we come to grips with its commentarial traditions?
(3) What do we learn from the Western interpretations of the texts?

As the editor of this volume, I have invited scholars to contribute articles.… Read more ⤻

Open Access Academic Journal To be published Nov 2022 Deadline: 15th Oct 2021 Edited by Ana María González Luna, Kim Grego, Giovanna Mapelli and Bettina Mottura The year 2020 has witnessed the forceful emergence of the theme of pandemic worldwide, highlighting the multifaceted mechanisms of reaction put into play against it. The activation of the resources needed to face risk, uncertainty, difficulties and tragedy has taken all the forms of human and social life, sometimes also determining the rediscovery of past experiences. Women, men, social and professional groups, the media, public institutions have had to draw upon the tools, the memories, the knowledge and the practices necessary to adapt and protect body and spirit from

Submission deadline: 13th Jun 2021 According to the ‘Democracy Index’

British Journal of Chinese Studies Deadline: 15th Aug 2021 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, racism against Chinese and other East and Southeast Asian communities has surged globally. At the same time, Chinese communities in different parts of the world have mobilised themselves to raise awareness of and fight against Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism. Social media hashtags such as #StopAsianHate or #StopAAPIHate have attracted a large following and galvanised unprecedented political energy. In this process, we observe a simultaneous mobilisation of and a conscious departure from Chinese identity. Some people hold on to the notion of Chinese identity, believing in its political and social relevance, whereas

Deadline: 1st Aug 2021 Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images is a new journal founded by Editor-in-Chief Ying Zhu, hosted at Hong Kong Baptist University, and published by University of Michigan. This special issue of Global Storytelling will investigate how streaming media has impacted the production, distribution, and reception of serial narratives. Television research, beginning with Herta Herzog’s landmark study of radio listeners “On Borrowed Experience”, privileged the soap opera as an object of research due to the special problems

Deadline: 31st Mar 2021 For its second volume, the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies invites scholars to submit papers dealing with aspects of youth in the pre-modern, modern, and contemporary Chinese world. We welcome unpublished papers that discuss the concept of youth and its impact on Chinese society especially in a diachronic and comparative way, on topics including, but not limited to: ● Youth and childhood in pre-modern China ● Youth within families and as social groups in society: intra- and transgenerational perspectives ● The transition from childhood to youth, and to adulthood

Deadline: Jan 31st 2021 In November 2019, the International Research Centre for the History and Culture of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms (IRC) was co-established by the Yunnan Provincial Museum in China, the Woon Brothers Foundation in Singapore and Northumbria University, UK. The aim is to improve understanding of the history, culture, and art of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms in Yunnan province, Southwest China. Dating between the 7th-13th centuries CE, these kingdoms produced unique and important Buddhist art forms. Located in, and managed by, the Yunnan Provincial Museum, the IRC intends to advance academic research, international cooperation and

Chinese historical network research is a burgeoning academic field. In recent years, the digitization of source materials, the proliferation of databases, as well as the development of digital tools, have greatly facilitated the study of networks in Chinese history. This special issue invites scholars from all disciplines to share their research that applies the theories and methodologies of social network analysis to the study of any period of Chinese history as well as archaeology. With this special issue, we hope to initiate a dialogue between network scholars specializing in China and those studying

Published by Springer (https://www.springer.com/series/15657) The book series provides a platform for the publication of studies on sciences in the ancient worlds that bring innovative methods into play and address new theoretical issues. It is predicated on the conviction that the history of ancient sciences raises theoretical questions and requires new methodologies in a way that can inspire many other fields. For instance, with the help of innovative methods, ancient mathematical documents allow us to shed a unique light on the manuscript cultures, in the context of which they were composed. [...]

Abstract Submission Deadline: 15th May 2020 We are seeking contributions to an edited volume focusing on Yan Lianke studies. The present edited volume focuses on how Yan Lianke has been received in and beyond mainland China, whilst presenting views of how Yan Lianke has been understood, interpreted, and appreciated in Japan, the US, and Europe. Contributions are from renowned scholars worldwide. The volume will also include one or two articles written by Yan Lianke himself. Yan Lianke is an internationally renowned Chinese writer. Born in 1958, he is one of the most prolific writers in the Chinese literary landscape. Often defined, and at times acclaimed, as the most irreverent and censored writer

Monde Chinois Nouvelle Asie n° 63 Deadline: 30th Apr 2020 The Uyghur region has a pivotal role in Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a gigantic infrastructure project that seeks to connect China to Russia, the Middle East and Europe. Regarded as “unstable” by the Chinese regime, the Uyghur region constitutes both an opportunity and an obstacle to this ambitious economic plan. As a consequence, a vast Orwellian surveillance system supported by AI technology has been implemented to control the local populations, of which the internment or disappearance of at least one million people according to various reports

Deadline: 1st May 2020 The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions in either English or German for edition 43, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2020‒21. 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 publications on East Asian research. To get an idea of the scope of topics and research approaches that have

Deadline: 31st Mar 2020 Economic and Political Studies (EPS), an ESCI and Scopus listed journal hosted by Renmin University of China and published by Taylor & Francis Group, is calling for papers for a Special Issue on “Policies and Reforms of State-owned Enterprises in China”. In the recent US-China trade disputes, the issues on China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been brought up again. To bring academics to share their views and visions on future growth and opportunities of SOEs, Economic and Political Studies (EPS) plans to organise a special issue on SOEs with a focus on the policies and reforms of China’s SOEs.

Guest-editors: Kuei-fen Chiu (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) Táňa Dluhošová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Archiv orientální , an indexed, peer-reviewed academic journal (A&HCI, Scopus, and ERIH Plus) published by Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) dedicated to the cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, invites submissions to the special issue “East Asia in the World Literary Space” scheduled to be published in August 2021. As discussed by the late French literary critic Pascale Casanova in her widely

3-5th Oct 2019 Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Deadline: 31st May 2019 The Oriental studies Department Institute of Linguistics RSUH in cooperation with Confucius Institute (RSUH) and the Association for the Advancement of Sinology in Russia 3 - 5 October, 2019 is holding the first international conference “Chinese Linguistics and Sinology”. The conference is dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Soviet-Russian linguist of Tan Aoshuan (1931-2017). Prominent Scholars will be making presentations at the conference

Deadline (abstracts): 31 May 2019 MING QING YANJIU, founded in 1992, is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated primarily to advanced studies of pre-modern China. This journal provides a forum for scholars from a variety of fields related to late imperial and early republican period that aim to have a cross-disciplinary discourse. Contributions in sociology, literature, psychology, anthropology, history, geography, linguistics, semiotics, political science, and philosophy, as well as book reviews are welcome. We invite paper submissions of up to 10.000 words for our special issue on “Collecting, Collections, and Collectors” that deal with any kind of collecting in Late Imperial China.

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.

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

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

Crossroads ISSN: 2190-8796
Editor in chief: Angela Schottenhammer
Published by OSTASIEN Verlag

The journal Crossroads-Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World is designed as an international forum for contributions related to the history of exchange relations in the East Asian world and beyond, that means, including regions, cultures, and countries worldwide that have or had relations with East Asia. The focus of contributions lies on both continental (overland) and maritime (overseas) exchanges and interaction, that means, commercial and technological exchanges, science and knowledge transfer, exchange of ideas, religions and ideological strains, and the movement of people (including migration) and animals. Contributions in the fields of the transfer of science and technologies, cultural aspects in their widest interpretation, religions, commodity and product exchange, trade, as well as migration and the organization of functioning networks are especially welcome.

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– Authors are requested to enclose, at the time of submission, a half page abstract of their article, contact and most essential biographical information.… Read more ⤻

Université de Mons, Belgium 2–4th May 2019 Deadline: 15th Jul 2018 Jointly organized by: Université de Mons (UMONS), Faculty of Translation and Interpretation (FTI-EII) and School of Human and Social Sciences (ESHS) Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Maison des Sciences Humaines, East Asian Studies (EASt) Organizing Committee: Kevin HENRY (UMONS), Vanessa FRANGVILLE (ULB), Serge DERUETTE (UMONS),

University of Central Lancashire, UK 15–16th Nov 2018 Deadline: 30th Apr 2018 The literature on Chinese families emphasises the power of the patriarchal, patrilineal and patrilocal structures and ideologies over family members, particularly women and younger generations. Reinforced by Confucian values, family members, within this patriarchal system, are expected to prioritise solidarity, filial piety, frugality, and collective wellbeing over individual interests. Yet, in a global context characterised by a weakening of traditions and more

Deadline: 1st Mar 2018 The Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies (Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung) is now accepting submissions, in either English or German, for edition 41, which is scheduled for publication in winter 2018. 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 publications on East Asian research, with individual research papers making up the larger part of the journal.

Sofia University, Bulgaria 1st Dec 2017 Deadline: 15th Jul 2017 The Chinese Studies Program at the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the conference "Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies" on 01 December 2017. The academic event will mark the 25th anniversary of the Chinese Studies Program at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski." The aims of the conference are

Deadline: early August (for the 2017 issue); nonetheless, manuscripts are welcome all the time. Crossroads ISSN: 2190-8796, Published by OSTASIEN Verlag. The journal Crossroads-Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World is designed as an international forum for contributions related to the history of exchange relations in the East Asian world and beyond, that means, including regions, cultures, and countries worldwide that have or had relations with East Asia. The focus of contributions lies on both continental (overland) and maritime (overseas) exchanges and interaction, that means, commercial and technological exchanges, science and knowledge transfer, exchange of ideas, religions and ideological strains, and the movement of people (including migration) and animals. Contributions in the fields of the transfer of science and technologies, cultural aspects in their widest interpretation, religions

Deadline: 30th Jun 2017 edited by Paolo Santangelo (Sapienza University of Rome) We are glad to inform you that the new edition of Ming Qing Studies 2017 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers in Fall 2017 (see contents below).Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts for the next issue of Ming Qing Studies 2018. The contributions should concern Ming-Qing China in one or few of its most significant and multifaceted aspects, as well as on East Asian countries covering the same time period. All articles will be examined by our qualified peer reviewers. We welcome creative and fresh approaches to the field of Asian studies. Particularly appreciated will be the contributions on anthropological and social history, collective imagery, and interdisciplinary approaches to the Asian cultural studies. All submitted papers must be original and in good British English style according to our guidelines and editorial rules.

Witten, Germany 18–23rd Aug 2017 Deadline: 31st May 2017 Every participant contributes a paper, summed up in a short oral presentation. Please send your application form including a paper title until May 31, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com . Please send the abstract (200 words, if possible also 500 Chinese characters, if not, translation will be provided) until June 15, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com . Please send the paper (10.000 words) until July 1, 2017 by email to the organizing committee wacs@china-studies.com (no extension possible, papers not submitted until July 15 will be considered rejected)