JBACS vol. 6

JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES (JBACS) – VOLUME 6 (DECEMBER 2016)

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of JBACS – the official journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS). This is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal publishing original and innovative research in the multidisciplinary field of Chinese Studies, with articles in a wide range of subject areas – history, economics, politics, society, archaeology, language, literature, philosophy, culture, gender, international relations and law – relating to modern and pre-modern China.

To access JBACS, follow this link to our website: http://bacsuk.org.uk/journal

VOLUME 6 (DECEMBER 2016)

Research articles

Drifting Through the Capital: ‘Floating’ Migrants and Masculinity in Xu Zechen’s Fiction
• Pamela Hunt (winner of the BACS Early Career Researcher Prize, 2016)

Gorbachev’s Glasnost and the Debate on Chinese Socialism among Chinese Sovietologists, 1985-1999
• Jie Li

Essays & notes

Taiwanese Media Reform
• Ming-yeh Rawnsley, James Smyth and Jonathan Sullivan

Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential and Legislative Elections
• Jonathan Sullivan and James Smyth

Book reviews

Ifan Williams, Created in Canton: Chinese Export Watercolours on Pith
• Craig Barclay

Yang Chia-Ling & Roderick Whitfield, Lost Generation: Luo Zhenyu, Qing Loyalists and the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture
• Marjorie Dryburgh

Peter Kitson & Robert Markley (eds.), Writing China Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
• Cheng Jin

Submission

We welcome submissions with a focus on China, including items that cross disciplinary boundaries or do not otherwise match the areas listed above. All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous double-blind refereeing by two referees. If you would like to submit an article, essay, research notes or book review, please check the submission guidelines available on our website.

Editors

Sarah Dauncey (University of Nottingham)
Don Starr (Durham University)
Gerda Wielander (University of Westminster)

Editorial Board

Tim Barrett (SOAS, University of London)
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (UNSW)
Jane Duckett (University of Glasgow)
Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)
Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics)
Natascha Gentz (University of Edinburgh)
Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)
Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham)
Qian Suoqiao (University of Newcastle)
Caroline Rose (University of Leeds)
Shujie Yao (University of Nottingham)

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