Deadline: 1st Feb 2016

The Department of Languages and Cultures, Section Chinese Language and Culture, Ghent University, invites applications for a PhD project on research in Medieval Chinese. The following PhD project will be funded by BOF (Special Research Fund Flanders) for a period of four years:

“A Study on Chinese Phonetic Loan Characters in Dunhuang Manuscripts Dating from 700-1000 CE”

The Department offers a thriving research environment on various aspects of East and South Asian studies, and features several research centers. In addition to its permanent staff, the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies currently hosts 11 PhD and 2 postdoctoral projects in various fields of East Asian Buddhist studies and Chinese historical linguistics.
    The project will be placed in the framework of the Department’s research on Medieval Chinese/Chinese historical linguistics and Dūnhuáng manuscript studies, including the collaborative project “Database of Medieval Chinese Syntax”. The candidate will receive individual supervision from the PhD advisors on a regular basis; further training will be provided in the framework of the Doctoral Schools.… Read more ⤻

Sinología Hispanica is a premier interdisciplinary journal on Chinese language and culture studies which aims to enhance international cultural communication, disseminate Chinese language, and culture studies, prosperity in Chinese social life as well as in scholarship. Its interdisciplinary approach covers a range of subjects including sinology, linguistics, culture communication, sociology; international affairs, economics and politics. It keeps readers up to date with the events in China and provides readers with historical perspectives, in-depth analyses, and a deeper understanding of Chinese language and Chinese culture. In addition to major articles and research reports, each issue contains academic trend and book review section.   The journal welcomes academic manuscripts especially, though not exclusively, on the following subject matters:

(Paper submitted is supposed be around March and September every year for being published in June and December)
Journal Information:
Title: Sinología Hispanica
Published for Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), China; Confucius Institute, University of Leon, Spain
Chief-Editor: Juan José Lanero, University of Leon, Spain
Languages: Chinese, English and Spanish
Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year (in June and December)
ISSN: 2444-832X

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The MARKUS platform has gone through a major update during the past few months. You can now create an account, upload content, add customized tags and comments and notes of different kinds, select which reference sites you want to display, convert Chinese to western dates, and, last but not least, import text directly from your ctext.org account. We have added new videos to show most of these features under “HowTo.” More will be added and Chinese translations of these will be added as well.

We continue to work on new features including machine learning, direct export from other databases, and visualizations of tagged content. Some features such as keyword tagging can be used for modern Chinese texts; we are interested in working with data providers to add more functionality for modern Chinese and other languages. Please get in touch with comments and suggestions.

As always we are much indebted to Brent Ho for the development of these features, to Gabe Geert van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen and Monica Klasing Chen for the English videos, and to Hueilan Xiong and Jialong Liu for the Chinese text of the videos.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 1st Feb 2016

The Department of Languages and Cultures, Section Chinese Language and Culture, Ghent University, invites applications for a PhD project on research in Medieval Chinese. The following PhD project will be funded by BOF (Special Research Fund Flanders) for a period of four years:

“A Study on Chinese Phonetic Loan Characters in Dunhuang Manuscripts Dating from 700-1000 CE”

The Department offers a thriving research environment on various aspects of East and South Asian studies, and features several research centers. In addition to its permanent staff, the Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies currently hosts 11 PhD and 2 postdoctoral projects in various fields of East Asian Buddhist studies and Chinese historical linguistics.

    The project will be placed in the framework of the Department’s research on Medieval Chinese/Chinese historical linguistics and Dunhuáng manuscript studies, including the collaborative project “Database of Medieval Chinese Syntax”. The candidate will receive individual supervision from the PhD advisors on a regular basis; further training will be provided in the framework of the Doctoral Schools.… Read more ⤻

Leiden, Netherlands
Deadline: 1st Dec 2015

The Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University will host the 2017 Conference on Middle Period China. Following the successful conference held at Harvard University in 2014, we hope to bring together 200-300 scholars with different levels of experience to share their ideas and research.
Like last time we aim to go beyond the usual speaker/audience format. Speakers will be asked to submit their papers and participants will be able to give feedback before the presentation, providing an environment for a more meaningful exchange.
In order to ensure that the largest number of interested scholars will be able to attend and participate, we are conducting a survey on the most suitable dates for the conference:

http://goo.gl/forms/glJu6AzBRw … Read more ⤻

International Communication of Chinese Culture（ICCC）is established by the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University, China and the Editor-in-Chief is Professor Huilin Huang. The journal is published by Springer, one of the world’s leading STM and academic publishers.

Aims and Scope
ICCC is a free access cross-disciplinary journal in the areas of China Studies, Communication, and Cultural Studies. The journal is committed to publishing high-quality research on the analysis, communication, perception and representation of Chinese culture within China and in the world.
ICCC invites authors to submit original research articles and provide new critical perspectives on what constitutes Chinese culture, how Chinese culture has taken shape in various forms and through different means and media, and its interactions and exchanges with other cultures in both historical and contemporary contexts. Manuscripts on other related areas are also welcomed. ICCC also features cultural critiques, reports, and book reviews.
ICCC publishes in English. All articles will be single-blind peer-reviewed.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 20th Dec 2015

Title (tentative): Educating Chinese-Heritage Students in the Global-Local Nexus: Achievement, Challenges, and Opportunities

This book aims to examine K-16 Chinese-heritage students’ conditions across the educational spectrum in various global educational contexts. Chinese heritage students are students of Chinese descent, including earlier migrant Chinese, diasporic Chinese, and current Chinese living outside China and moving across borders. Extending Ma and Li’s (Routledge, in press) book that investigates Chinese-heritage learners’ educational experiences in a North American context, the goal of this edited volume is to help the educational community better understand and teach K-16 Chinese-heritage students’ languages, cultures, identities, achievements, and challenges in international settings outside the North American context.

We welcome chapter proposals from scholars whose research addresses these topics. Chapters may look at K-16 Chinese-heritage students’ situations in schools, homes, and communities in any specific sociocultural context in a global context. For example, who are the Chinese-heritage students in Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, or any other country where they are growing fast in number?… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 6th Jan 2016

Music, radio, and TV broadcasts; blaring loudspeakers, public announcements, and street conversations; city sounds, sounds of progress, sounds of revolution, or sounds of change; sounds deliberately produced or emerging unintentionally, serving a disciplinary function or expressing forms of freedom; musical as well as non-musical (functional) sounds.

South-East Asia is filled with sounds; indeed, some people would say that it is a noisy part of the world. However, is it possible to identify a specific South-East Asian soundscape? And if so, where are the roots to be found, and how did these sounds achieve their current form?

The Journal of Sonic Studies is searching for scholarly and artistic contributions that deal with the relation between South-East Asian history, culture, society, and politics and the production, distribution, and reception of sounds, noises, and silence. The broader aim of this special issue is to establish “sound” as an analytical category that provides us with challenging perspectives on and a new understanding of South-East Asia.… Read more ⤻

The Journal of Chinese History / 中國歷史學刊 publishes research articles, review essays, and book reviews on all periods of Chinese history and all sub-specialties of history—social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual. The journal aims to keep its readers abreast of important trends in historical scholarship and welcomes inquiries about review essays and special issues on focused topics. Innovative articles of any length will be considered, but there is a preference for articles of broad interest to Chinese historians and ones of moderate length (8,000 to 14,000 words).

ISSN: n/a   EISSN: 2059-1640

Journal Website: External Link…

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Abstract Deadline: 31st Jul 2015

EDITED BY PAOLO SANTANGELO (SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME)

We are glad to inform you that the new edition of Ming Qing Studies 2015 is going to be published by Aracne Publishers in Fall 2015.
Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts for the next issue of Ming Qing Studies 2016. 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 well written in British English according to our guidelines and editorial rules. Please email your abstract (300-500 words) in MS Word or pdf attachments along with your biographical information to the addresses listed below.… Read more ⤻

The Institute of Chinese Studies Heidelberg holds a full run of Zhaiyi (Selected Translations). Because it will not be found in the great collections outside the PRC and is of interest for the study of Chinese literary and cultural interactions with the world at a time when such interactions were at a low ebb, it is made accessible on-line here for scholarly research in a fully searchable version. Zhaiyi was “internally published” by the Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe from late 1973 to the end of 1976. It belonged to a group of journals starting publication in Shanghai around the same time, namely the literary journal Zhaoxia 朝霞 (Morning Dawn), a journal devoted to theoretical questions of science and philosophy, Ziran bianzhengfa 自认辩证法 (Dialectics of Nature), and a journal of political theory and criticism, Xuexi yu pipan 学习与批判 (Study and Critique). These were not marked as “internally published,” but they were all also discontinued shortly after !
 the end of the Cultural Revolution.… Read more ⤻

The new issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions is now available in print and online at http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/jcr/43/1.

It is a special issue on “Mutations and Adaptations of Chinese Communal Religious Structures,” edited by Paul R. Katz; it contains three research articles and eleven book reviews.

ARTICLES
Vincent Goossaert, “The Shifting Balance of Power in the City God Temples, Late Qing to 1937.”

Shuk-wah Poon, “Thriving under an Anti-Superstition Regime: The Dragon Mother Cult in Yuecheng, Guangdong, during the 1930s.”

Paul R. Katz, “Writing a Place for Rites—The Value of “Old Customs” in Modern Wenzhou.”

Let me use this opportunity to issue a general call for papers; please refer to http://www.maneyonline.com/ifa/jcr for further information on paper submission procedures and JCR style, or contact me directly at jcr@uni-leipzig.de.

All members of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions (SSCR) receive a free print copy and online access. For membership information see http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k7027&pageid=icb.page43815.

Best wishes,

Philip Clart

Philip Clart
Editor, Journal of Chinese Religions
jcr@uni-leipzig.de… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 15th Sep 2015

MING QING YANJIU ISSN 1724-8574
Published by the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Dept. Asia, Africa and Mediterraneum MING QING YANJIU, founded in 1992, is a journal dedicated primarily to advanced studies of premodern 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 – Manuscripts should be submitted to Ming Qing Yanjiu, Department of Asia, Africa and Mediterraneum, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore 12, 80134 Napoli, ITALY email: mingqing@unior.it

– The papers must be written in English or in Chinese, and they must indicate the author’s postal address, telephone number, and fax and/or e-mail address.

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

Deadline (proposal): 1st Aug 2015

The master narrative produced by the Chinese state in 20th century has — as argued by Prasenjit Duara — monopolized the nation-state as the primary or even exclusive form of political order. Since the foundation of the Republic in 1912 school textbooks, academic writings and mass media all adhere to a single message that is constantly reiterated by attentively selecting and glorifying certain events and silencing politically cumbersome topics. This monolithic history has neglected or suppressed memories of those groups that reside at the periphery. It has further relegated to the margins those memories that coincide with a range of peripheral
collectives whose integration into the nation-state is historically far from clearly known.

It is the intention and the purpose of the edited volume proposed here to provide a more complete picture of the ethnically, geographically and culturally heterogeneous space called China by taking periphery seriously and introducing it as a heuristic principle when writing memories.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 1st Sep 2015

The first issue in 2016 will be dedicated to the Buddhist studies. It will explore the role of Buddhism in contemporary global, especially European societies. The call for papers is especially directed towards (but not limited to) the participants of the Symposium dedicated to the same topic, which took place at the Faculty of Art in Ljubljana from March 12th to 14th 2015.

The main purpose of the issue is to explore the role of this ancient thought in modern life, to investigate and analyze the current prevailing attitudes towards Buddhism, to enable new insights into its theoretical contents, and to introduce its new methods and practices. Themes to be addressed may include contemporary Buddhist ritual customs; Buddhist social practices; the relationship between Buddhism and other religious traditions; the relationship between Buddhist institutions and the state; Buddhist monasticism and its relationship to the laity; Buddhist ethics; Buddhist “modernism,” the concept of mindfulness, the relationship between Buddhism and psychology, neurology and cognitive sciences, and so on.… Read more ⤻

Asian Studies Azijske študije

Deadline: 30th Jun 2015

The Autumn issue 2015 will be dedicated to the work of European Jesuits in China from 16th till 18th centuries. The main purpose of this issue is to further explore the role of Jesuits on the development of modern Chinese science. More specifically, this issue seeks to offer new insights in Jesuit`s contribution to development of the astronomy, cartography and mathematical sciences with special focuses on astronomical instruments and the work of Jesuits in the imperial Board of Astronomy. We welcome papers from scholars, researchers, PhD students and other who have expertise in the above mentioned topic.

Previous not published articles are to be submitted online (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as) by the 30th June 2015.

The academic journal Asian Studies (until 2013 Asian and African Studies) has been published by the Department of Asian and African Studies, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) since 1997. It is a distinctive, interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of Asian societies and cultures.… Read more ⤻

Lingua Sinica is

• the first Open Access international journal devoted to languages and linguistics of China, aiming to achieve the widest possible visibility and optimal international impact of its published research
• publishing research articles that bridge theoretical orientations, research paradigms, and linguistic traditions
• providing free accessibility to linguists in China and around the world to promote effective research dissemination and exchange

The Open Access fees (Article-Processing Charges) for this journal are kindly sponsored by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University—Peking University Research Centre on Chinese Linguistics. Authors’ Article-Processing Charges (APC) will be waived for the inaugural year 2015. 

Submit your research article now at https://www.editorialmanager.com/lisi/

 
Lingua Sinica is dedicated to the scientific study of languages in China, as well as their various social and regional dialects. It publishes academic papers written in English that present theoretical significance while providing descriptive generalizations based on rigorous theoretical argumentation, replicable experimental design and/or comprehensive examination of collected and annotated linguistic data through field work or corpora.… Read more ⤻

In October 2014, the European Association for Chinese philosophy (EACP) was established.

If you are interested in our activities, please check the EACP website (http://www.ea-cp.eu/ ). We invite you to join us and to fill out your membership application form at the tab “Members”; (http://www.ea-cp.eu/members ).

We are looking forward to hearing from you and hoping the EACP registration will be one of the first joyful activities you will be performing in 2015.

We are open for all membership proposals and invite you to spread the news among all interested scholars through your own distribution channels.

At the same time, we would like to ask you to send us any information about the research or exchange projects and all other academic activities in the field of Chinese thought you are carrying out. All other information (announcements, related links, etc.) is also welcome.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 17th Apr 2015

Edited by Adriana ŞERBAN (Paul Valéry University, Montpellier) and Kelly Kar Yue CHAN (The
Open University of Hong Kong)

“Every high C accurately struck utterly demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate and chance”, wrote W.H. Auden in 1951 (p. 10). Auden, who was an opera lover, librettist and translator of libretti, considered opera “the last refuge of the High style” and perhaps the only art “to which a poet with a nostalgia for those times past when poets could write in the grand manner all by themselves can still contribute” (1968, p. 116). In other words, opera has not made – or had not made in Auden’s days – the compromises with contemporary society other art forms may have agreed to, or indeed chosen, for better or for worse. This is also why in the Western World opera polarizes opinion the way it does: considered elitist (i.e.,… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 15th Jan 2015

We are delighted to invite submissions for the first ever anthology focusing on the influence of Maoism on Eastern and Western art, provisionally titled: Maoism, Art, and the New Chinese World Order.
From the Peruvian campesinos to the Californian campuses, from the large factories in the suburbs of Paris to the independent radio stations in Bologna, beginning in the 1960s and right into the present, Maoism and the Cultural Revolution continues to capture the imaginations of activists, filmmakers, intellectuals, and artists the world over. Caught between a cult of personality and libertarian impulses, artists such as Thomas Bayrle, Jörg Immendorff, Gilles Aillaud, Darío Corbeira, Emory Douglas, Enzo Mari, Piero Gilardi and the French collective Supports/Surfaces all fell under the spell of Mao, though in very different and at times incompatible ways. Some artists attempted to integrate Maoist political principles into their work, while others assimilated Maoist material culture, the iconography and rhetoric of Maoism—or at least what was known in the West about the Cultural Revolution—into their production and model of authorship.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 31st Dec 2014

Since the caesura in 1989, a sharp increase in civic activities all over the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has taken place. Civic engagement draws on historical experiences and predecessors while at the same time developing fresh modes of mobilization and engagement and employing innovative strategies to further its causes. The increased formation of citizens and the emergence of a flourishing civil society indicate a new level of civic engagement in China.

This issue takes a critical look at Chinese citizens’ activities and their engagement past and present, to analyze the changes in citizenship that has taken place in the last quarter century.
Therefore we will look back to the caesura of 1989 and depict it as one key backdrop against which the developments relevant for current civic engagement are delineated.
Furthermore, we will scrutinize the conditions which have changed since then and how these changes have affected civic engagement, as for instance through the Document no.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Sep 2014

Designed for Palgrave’s “handbook” series that brings together cutting-edge scholarship on key topics in film and media studies, we plan for this volume to make an intervention in ongoing debates surrounding the nature and direction of the study of Asian film. From Bollywood to Hallyu, from the rising cinemas of West and Central Asia to the Chinese “new waves,” Asia provides world screens with some of its most dynamic, innovative, and provocative fiction, documentary, animated, experimental, and hybrid films.However, the concept of “Asian cinema” too often conjures up visions of staid Hollywood imitations, turgid propaganda, and exercises in national chauvinism. The definition of “Asian cinema,” in fact, lags behind what is actually happening on set and on location, in the cinema as well as on the computer screen.  Not only have regional flows intensified in recent years, but global currents have swept Asia in heretofore unimagined ways. Transnational co-productions seem to be the norm rather than the exception and diasporic filmmaking has found a voice that may be “Asian” to a degree but located in Europe, America, Australia, or elsewhere. … Read more ⤻

Deadline: 15th Jan 2015
The Journal of China and International Relations (JCIR) now invites contributions for its next English language edition. The deadline for manuscript submission is 15 January 2015. JCIR welcomes manuscripts from both the humanities and social sciences. Please see the attached Call for Papers for details on the journal and submission guidelines. Feel free to forward this announcement and the attached file to anyone who might be interested. The  JCIR homepage can be accessed here: http://ojs.aub.aau.dk/index.php/jcir/about/index  

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Local.pt, 22nd Jul 2014
Portugal acolhe pela primeira vez o maior Congresso Europeu sobre a China 23 – 26 de julho, Gerson Ingrês
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Focus Taiwan News Channel, 28th Jul 2014
China’s obstruction at conference hurts cross-strait ties: Taiwan, Scarlett Chai, Hsu Chi-wei and Lilian Wu
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Taipei Times, 29th Jul 2014
Foundation angry over EACS brochures, Shih Hsiu-chuan
Read the full article at: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/07/29/2003596160… Read more ⤻

Deadline 30th Mar 2015

Oriens Extremus invites contributions to a special section on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the journal La Jeunesse (Xin Qingnian 新青年), founded in Shanghai in September 1915. We take this centennial as an occasion to discuss not only the historical and intellectual significance of La Jeunesse itself, but also the wider thematic field of youth movements in modern East Asia. Oriens Extremus seeks contributions that focus on concepts and strategies of youth activism and its media, including Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese journals and newspapers of similar outlook and scope as La Jeunesse, such as Chūōkōron 中央公論, Sin Han ch’ŏngnyŏn 新韓青年 and Taiwan qingnian 臺灣青年.

Moreover, Oriens Extremus continues to welcome articles from any field pertain- ing to East Asian cultural and intellectual history. We also encourage the submission of review articles at any time and will be glad to provide you with copies of the books you would like to review.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 29th Aug 2014
The Oxford Bibliographies Graduate Student Article Award is an invitation-only annual award that oers experienced doctoral candidates an opportunity to contribute to Oxford Bibliographies. This competition oers graduate students a unique chance to draw attention to their work and to add a peer-reviewed publication to their CVs. Invitation is by faculty nomination only. To maintain Oxford Bibliographies’s high standard of quality, this award will feature a rigorous selection and approval process. Contracts will only be oered to authors whose proposals demonstrate scholarly excellence, strong command of the literature, and are directly relevant to Oxford Bibliographies. Rigorous quality controls such as external peer review and editorial board approval will permit only the highest quality contributions to reach publication.

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The Economic and Political Studies (EPS) ( ISSN: 2095 – 4816 ) is a
peer-reviewed academic journal, published in both print and electronic
versions.

The EPS seeks to promote the studies of Economics and Politics by addressing
issues concerning China and its interaction with the world, encouraging an
interdisciplinary approach, while exploring critiques from various
perspectives. The journal also provides an international forum for
innovative theoretical and empirical work where the fields of economics and
politics intersect. Both qualitative and quantitative researches are
eligible for possible publication in the journal. The journal also considers
related areas such as international economics, development economics,
comparative political economy, international relations, and political
philosophy, making the EPS an essential reference for in-depth knowledge and
up-to-date coverage of Economics and Politics.

You are cordially invited to submit manuscripts to the  EPS. Research
articles, review essays, research reports and book reviews are all welcome.
Manuscripts can be submitted via e-mail to journal@ruc.edu.cn.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 31st Mar 2014

(eds.) Tommaso Previato and Alessandra Cappelletti

1. Significance and purpose:

Chinese Studies are a dynamic and quickly developing research field, which evolves along with the increasingly complex Chinese society. Until the 1980s, studies on historical and contemporary China have been conducted through a few classical approaches: from philology to comparative literature and cultural studies, from economics to demographic and social statistics, from anthropology to ethnology and sociology. The ‘Chinese Universe’ has been studied from a wide array of perspectives and methods, that have been most of the times incapable to interact organically one with the other, and only occasionally have pushed the academia towards a deeper and broader understanding of social phenomena. Most of the research outcomes and findings were generally based upon and shaped by a few epistemological beliefs supporting this or that discipline, or weighing arguments for relevance of this or that branch of knowledge. The use of sources was also limited to the particular field of study the researches belonged to.… Read more ⤻

The Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies (ISSN: 2224-2716), recently included in the ProQuest™ Database System to improve its visibility, is an international peer-reviewed academic journal (in English) which is edited by the Overseas Education College of Xiamen University in China. It publishes articles and reviews on a full gamut of Chinese studies which include but are not limited to Chinese language education, Chinese linguistics, Chinese culture, Chinese literature, Chinese arts, Chinese history, Chinese society, Chinese politics and economy. It intends to promote research and provide an interface for scholarly communications and discussions in the fields.

In addtion to ProQuest, each paper published in the Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies will also be included in an international upgrade version of Academic Search™ Database by EBSCO host, starting from September, 2015.

We are now calling for submission of papers for the 2nd through 4th issues of the second volume.

All submitted articles should be original and are subjected to blind peer review and to the discretion of the editors.… Read more ⤻

Lingua Sinica is a new international journal of language sciences on languages of China and language use in China to be published by Springer, one of the world’s leading publishers. The journal will be launched in 2014 with the intention to apply for inclusion in all major citation indexes immediately. Published as open access, Lingua Sinica sets the trend in linguistics and Chinese linguistics and helps the authors to meet the growing trend of open access policy required by funding agencies (such as those in UK and HK). The open access of Lingua Sinica furthermore guarantees prompt publication of a submission as soon as the review process is completed, and aims to achieve the widest possible visibility and optimal international impact.

Aims and Scope

Lingua Sinica is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the linguistic study of Chinese and the minority languages in China, including their various social and regional dialects. It publishes highest-quality papers written in English that address significant linguistic issues based on contemporary linguistic theories, experimental approaches and/or comprehensive generalizations derived from carefully collected language data.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: 30th Nov 2013

“Chinese Studies” is an annual compendium of scientific papers devoted to the study of China in different fields of social sciences and humanities. It is published by the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists in association with the A. Krymskyi Institute for the Oriental Studies, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The deadline for submitting papers for the next issue is November 30, 2013. All interested authors are welcome for cooperation.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ARTICLES:

The Compendium Committee accepts manuscripts from any country
Articles can be written in Ukrainian, Russian, English or Chinese
Articles must be sent in a MS Word document with the extension *.rtf to the e-mail: info@sinologist.com.ua
Articles are reviewed anonymously  
The format of the document must be A4, with margins 2 cm on the top, bottom, and right, and 3 cm on the left
The paper must not exceed 18 pages
The article must be accompanied by its summary in English within 200-500 words
A separate page must contain the article title, the author’s full name and scientific degree, the name of the author’s employing organization, and contact details, such as address, phone, e-mail
Tables and figures must have a clear image and be large enough to be readable after reduction by 50%.… Read more ⤻

Deadline: Nov 30th 2013
Shandong University’s Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy (Wen Shi Zhe) is one of mainland China’s most well-known and well-respected academic journals. It has appeared bi-monthly for more than half a decade and has gained the highest repute among Chinese scholars. The Journal focuses on presenting scholarly work on various aspects of China’s traditional culture and society.
Due to the rising demand and desire

The Quarterly Journal of Chinese Studies (i.e., former Journal of Chinese Studies, ISSN: 2224-2716), recently indexed by the EBSCOhost™ database system and ProQuest™ database system to improve its visibility, is an international peer-reviewed academic journal (in English) which is edited by the Overseas Education College of Xiamen University in China. It publishes articles and reviews on a full gamut of Chinese studies which include but are not limited to Chinese language education, Chinese linguistics, Chinese culture, Chinese literature, Chinese arts, Chinese history, Chinese society, Chinese politics and economy. It intends to promote research and provide an interface for scholarly communications and discussions in the fields.

The deadlines for submission of papers are Febuary 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15 respectively for the March, June, September, and December issues. We are now calling for submission of papers for the fourth issue of the first volume.

All submitted articles should be original and are subjected to blind peer review and to the discretion of the editors.… Read more ⤻

Deadline 30th Mar 2014

Oriens Extremus invites contributions to a special section on changing notions of childhood and education in East Asia. Child and youth education has been a primary concern for East Asian societies for more than two millennia. From pre-natal education to primers, “family instructions,” private tutors, and national universities, concepts of childhood and education have influenced East Asian cultures in manifold ways.

Oriens Extremus calls for papers that deal with these concepts from a historical perspective and address issues and questions like the following: How did social transformations affect the conceptualization of childhood and education? In which ways are they reflected in changing school curricula? How did they relate to concepts such as “individuality,” “personhood,” “morals,” and “ethical relations”? How were concepts of childhood expressed in poetry and the visual arts?

Moreover, Oriens Extremus continues to welcome articles from any field pertaining to East Asian cultural and intellectual history. We also encourage the submission of reviews and review articles at any time.… Read more ⤻

Freiburg, Germany
Deadline: 15th Jul 2013

As of this autumn, Freiburg University offers an English language MA program Modern China Studies. Students will spend their 3rd semester abroad.
Prospective students should hold a BA degree in Chinese Studies. Alternatively, they may have graduated from other disciplines from the humanities or social sciences and have Chinese language skills equivalent to HSK 4.
We would appreciate if you could

Deadline: 30th Nov 2013

MING QING YANJIU, founded in 1992, is a 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.
Han and Non-Han: identities, foreign influences and characters from the “Barbarian dynasties” of XI-XII century to early republican China
Deadline: November 30, 2013
Intended date of publication: July 2014       
For information please refer to External Link
And/or contact mingqing@unior.it; dguida@unior.it

MING QING YANJIU  ISSN 1724-8574
Published by the Università degli Studi di Napoli“L’Orientale”
Dept. Asia, Africa and Mediterraneum
 

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Deadline: 15^th Jun 2013

Planned publication time: Oct 2013

We would like to invite proposals for articles for an open access academic English language blind peer review journal ‘International Journal of Area Studies‘ to be published in October, 2013. This issue is devoted to Chinese and Taiwanese studies.
The Journal, published semiannually in March and October, is devoted to area studies from the humanities and social sciences perspectives (including but not limited to research on history, religion, philosophy, politics, and social processes in the regions of the world).
We are interested in receiving article proposals related to different facets of the aforementioned scientific fields.
Though the Journal first of all is aimed at becoming a scholarly outlet for scholars engaged in area (including North European) studies who are based in Central and Eastern Europe, it naturally welcomes contributions by authors residing and working anywhere in the world. In addition, the Journal welcomes texts by aspiring young researchers, including graduate and post-graduate students.… Read more ⤻

EUROSINICA is a book series for monographs of various thematic focuses, sharing the goal of studying culture and literature in contemporary or historical contexts. The series, under the imprint of Peter Lang, was founded in 1984 by the German sinologist Günther Debon (1921–2005) and the Canadian comparatist Adrian Hsia (1938–2010); so far, thirteen books have been published. While the founding editors placed the emphasis on the transfer processes of classical literary works and motifs between cultures, the continuation of their work requires new approaches.

Rather than operate within the conceptual framework of “cultural dialogue” between an East and a West viewed as distinct entities, the series editors tend to a view of cultures in contact. EUROSINICA is accordingly open for studies and interpretation of authors, personalities, genres and individual works committed to an understanding of humanity as a common source of values which, rather than be impeded by cultural, linguistic or ethnic disparity, are being reshaped and reinvented in different settings.… Read more ⤻

Publications by EACS Members

This new category collects and presents publications (books) by members of the EACS. Members are invited to send their bibliographical information (including short description, book cover image with web-permission, link to book sellers site (optional) to the webmaster. New items will be featured in the news-section and on our start-page. They will then move to the directory (here) after a few weeks. In case you are a publishing agency and want to advertise products related to Chinese studies on this site, please contact our secretary for detailed terms and conditions.

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Budapest, Hungary
Deadline: 15^th Jan 2013

The Tang Summer School, held on July 1–7, 2013, at ELTE University (Budapest), offers an overview of the main facets of the Tang era by focusing on its relationship with the world outside China in five specific areas: history, literature, religion, science, and art. The entire summer school is sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Deadline: 1^st Nov 2012

Ming Qing yanjiu, published yearly from 1992. The theme is "Dynastic crisis in late imperial China (Ming-Qing or Qing-end of the empire)" The deadline is: November 1, 2012. For any information please contact mingqing@unior.it or myself dguida@unior.it - For previous issues and editorial norms, please refer to External Link

Donatella Guida Ph.D. Prof. di Storia della Cina
Dipartimento Asia Africa Mediterraneo
Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"

The Journal of Chinese Studies (ISSN: 2224-2716) is a quarterly published international peer-reviewed academic journal (in English) which is edited by the Overseas Education College of Xiamen University in China. It publishes articles and reviews on a full gamut of Chinese studies which include but are not limited to Chinese language education, Chinese linguistics, Chinese culture, Chinese literature, Chinese arts, Chinese history, Chinese society, Chinese politics and economy. It intends to promote 

Constitution

(Revised on September  2,  2000)

Article 1

An international association to be known as the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), hereafter referred to as “The Association”, governed by the present constitution, is hereby established between the undersigned and any other person subscribing to its constitution.

Article 2

The Association shall be registered as a non-profit organisation in a country of Europe.

Article 3

The purpose of the Association shall be to promote and foster, by every possible means, all scholarly activities related to Chinese studies in Europe. The Association shall not engage in any political activity.

Article 4

The Association shall consist of Ordinary Members, Corporate Members and Honorary Members. Ordinary Members shall be individuals of any country who support the aims of the Association. They shall be admitted on payment of an annual fee to be determined by the Board. Corporate Members shall be organizations which desire to support the aims of the Association by payment of an annual fee to be determined by the Board.… Read more ⤻