Call for Proposals Now Open – ‘Cultural China’ Book Series

cultural china is a new open access book series edited by Professor Gerda Wielander, Director of the Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster. The series is now open for submissions for book projects of between 35-90,000 words.

Please read on for full details of the call. If you are considering a submission, Gerda Wielander will be at the AAS in Seattle and happy to have a chat in person (please email her on G.Wielander@westminster.ac.uk).

The series builds on the success of Cultural China 2020 and Cultural China 2021 which provided up to date, informed and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural practices, politics and production, and their critical analysis. The new book series publishes in-depth, peer reviewed research with a focus on the cultural to fill a gap in the field dominated by geo-political and economic concerns. The series aims to diversify and complicate understandings of contemporary China. We also encourage the submission of contextualised translations of Chinese language authors and intellectuals.

cultural china will publish books that critically study Chinese language, cultural practice and production from geographical areas, societies, groups, and individuals not confined by the borders of a nation state. By adopting the use of the lower case in the series title we want to shift the emphasis from a country’s name to a field. We hope that the puzzling encounter of a lower-case ‘c’ will prompt reflections about the ways we often equate individual names and states with homogenous culture. Continue reading →

CFP: Chinese Literature and Film After 1900
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 77th Annual Convention
Conference Date: October 10-12, 2024
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

This panel seeks to illuminate the diverse array of voices, narratives, and experiences within modern Chinese literature and film that are often ignored or marginalized in mainstream discourse. We invite papers that delve into the works of writers and filmmakers from China and the Sinophone sphere who represent marginalized communities, such as ethnic and racial minorities, LGBTQ+ individuals, women, and those from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Additionally, we welcome studies that focus on lesser-known literary works and films that challenge dominant narratives and amplify underrepresented voices.

Interested participants should submit a 250-word abstract and a short biography (2-3 sentences) through this Google Form by March 15, 2024. The language of the presentations will be in English.

Please direct any inquiries to:

Charles Laughlin (cal5m@virginia.edu)
Andrew Kauffman (andrew.kauffman@unlv.edu)
Yiming Ma (yimingma@umail.ucsb.edu)

Call for Papers: “Rethinking Eileen Chang” Session RMMLA Annual Convention, October 10-12, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

RMMLA 2024 is pleased to announce that Dr. Nicole Huang will appear as the featured speaker, delivering a lecture entitled “A Glimpse of Taiwan: Eileen Chang and Her Frontier Towns.” In conjunction with this keynote event, we seek to organize some sessions on the work of Eileen Chang. The essays, novels, translations, screenplays, life, and legacy of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing, 1920-1995) have risen steadily in prominence in world literature and scholarship over the decades, gaining increasing attention over time. Chang was raised in an aristocratic family in Shanghai and received elite education both there and in Hong Kong. Her short works were a sensation in Shanghai during the war; leaving Shanghai for Hong Kong in 1952 and heading to the United States in 1955, she embarked on a journey of global dialogues in her creative and scholarly activities. A voluminous amount of scholarship, translations, adaptations, seminars, and conferences have been devoted to Eileen Chang and her works over the last three decades. We seek paper proposals on Eileen Chang that utilize new perspectives in reconsidering Chang’s works and seek to understand it within a global frame of world literature. Prospective presenters should send a title, an approximately 300-word abstract, and 250-word bio to Jessica Tsui-Yan Li <jli@yorku.ca>, Christopher Lupke <lupke@ualberta.ca>, and Sijia Yao <syao@soka.edu>. Proposals received by March 15th will receive full consideration.

Posted by: Sijia Yao <syao@soka.edu>

Call For Papers (Deadline December 30, 2023)
Special Issue of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Energy and Media
Guest Editors: Weixian Pan (Queen’s University), Yandong Li (University of Washington)

Timeline:
December 30, 2023: Abstract of 350-500 words and author bios of 100 words maximum
May 30, 2024: Full article draft due
October 30, 2024: Article revisions due
Late 2024/early 2025: Special issue published

We invite essays that bridge studies of Chinese film and media with the burgeoning field of environmental humanities, with a particular focus on energy culture. In the past two decades, concepts such as “eco-media” and “media environment” have generated debates on the mediation of ecological crises, the philosophy of nature, and the materiality of media technologies (for example, Lu and Mi 2009; Chang 2019; Litzinger and Yang 2020; Bao et al. 2023). Whereas energy culture is deeply embedded in these concepts and prior debates, the distinct geographies and political economy call for different approaches to trace energy’s infrastructure, vectors of connections and disruptions, and in turn, how media becomes an integral part of the theorization and implementation of energy regimes (Mukherjee 2020; Cooper et al. 2023). Continue reading →

The Call for Papers for the 2024 CHINOPERL conference has been extended to the end of December. Please check out the CFPs at the CHINOPERL website:

http://chinoperl.org/conference.html

CHINOPERL website:  http://chinoperl.org/

Chinese Oral and Performing Literature (CHINOPERL) (中國演唱文藝研究會) is an organization that is devoted to the research, analysis and interpretation of oral and performing traditions, broadly defined, and their relationship to China’s culture and society. Among the founders of CHINOPERL was Y.R. Chao, who gave the organization its acronym, CHINOPERL.

CHINOPERL’s annual conferences are held in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The upcoming AAS annual meeting will be held in Seattle on 14-17 March 2024. CHINOPERL also plans to host an online event in the last week of March (date not yet set) via Zoom. So, there are options to present in person in Seattle, or virtually after the on-site presentations.

Note that in the following year, AAS and CHINOPERL will be held in Columbus, Ohio! Yes, here in Columbus! So, we in DEALL will definitely be involved in various ways, be it with respect to CHINOPERL and/or other activities.

CUHK – Call for Paper Proposals: Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2024 中國文化研究青年學者論壇: 論文徵集

Co-organized by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

主題：穿越學科的中國研究：自然、文化與社會生活
Theme: Chinese Studies across Disciplines: Nature, Culture, and Social Life

INTRODUCTION

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Young Scholars’ Forum 2024 plans to invite Ph.D. candidates (after completing qualifying examination) or Ph.D. graduates with less than 5 years of work experience (including postdoctoral fellows), and gathers young scholars from around the world, including past YSF participants, to share their latest research, engage in intellectual dialogue, and foster interdisciplinary networks in the field of Chinese Studies.

The upcoming three-day Forum will focus on the intersections of nature, culture, and social life in the multifaceted field of Chinese Studies, in a series of thought-provoking panel discussions and sharing sessions. The Forum welcomes submission of abstracts on the following sub-themes: Continue reading →

For your convenience, here is a list of the China/East Asian-related panels at MLA in January.–Patricia Sieber

Thursday, January 4

17 – Play and Performance: Party Games in Early Modern Chinese Literature and Art
Thursday, 4 January, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM, Marriott 411-412
Presider: Jiayi Chen (Washington U)

Presentations:

• Playing Cards for Drinking Games: Literary Paradigms for Performative Play, Suzanne Wright (U of Tennessee, Knoxville)
• Banqueting through Improvisation: The Game of Hiding the Hook and the Qing Court Theater, Jiayi Chen (Washington U)
• A Laughing Flower’s Guide to the Party: Knowledge, Pleasure, and Pattern in Flowers in the Mirror, Rania Huntington (U W, Madison)
• Ludic Heroines, Feminine Mirth: The Courtesans’ Drinking Games in The Dream in the Green Bower, Li Guo (Utah State U)

59 – Between Europe and Asia: Circulation, Exchanges, and Early Modernity
[LLC Ming and Qing Chinese; LLC 17^th-Century English]
Thursday, 4 January, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Marriott – Franklin 8
Presider: Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech)

Presentations:

• Chinese Sea Novels and the Making of the Modern World, E. Kile (Michigan)
• China in the Moon: Technology, Cosmology, and Orientalism in Francis Godwin’s Lunar Voyage, Andrea Yang (UC Davis)
• The Empire’s Watery Ways: The Grand Canal in Chinese Painting, Dutch Travelogues, and French Thought, Paize Keulemans (Princeton)
• Metaphor as Method, David Porter (Michigan)

Continue reading →

The CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) invites submissions for its annual graduate student conference, to be held fully in-person on the CU Boulder campus on February 24 & 25, 2024.

We invite current graduate students from across the US and around the world engaged in research on Asia, particularly in the fields of Chinese and Japanese studies, to submit proposals on their research across fields, such as: Anthropology, Art & Art History, Literatures, Economics, Ethnic Studies, Ethnomusicology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, Theatre & Dance, Urban & Regional Planning, and Women’s Studies.

The conference will include keynote addresses from two prominent scholars in Chinese and Japanese studies: Professor Wai-yee Li (1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University) and Professor Zev Handel (Department Chair, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington). Keynote speakers and University of Colorado faculty will be on hand to provide feedback to presenters throughout the conference. Above all, the conference is a forum through which graduate students, researchers, and faculty are able to engage in dialogues of critical importance to the development of our respective fields, providing participants with opportunities to expand their academic perspectives as well as academic and professional networks.

To apply, please submit a 300-word conference paper proposal and a CV to cubasga@colorado.edu by December 15, 2023. Successful applicants will be notified of acceptance by the end of 2023. For inquiries, please email CUBASGA student administrators at cubasga@colorado.edu.

We look forward to your submissions! Sincerely,
Camille Byrne, President
Raisa Stebbins, Vice President

CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA)

https://www.colorado.edu/alc/graduate/graduate-student-conference