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Call for Contributions
Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 9.1 (2028)
Special Issue: “The Production and Dissemination of Regional Knowledge in Lingnan”
Guest editor: Rubén Almendros (Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica)
The editors of JEACS invite submissions for an upcoming special issue tentatively titled “The Production and Dissemination of Regional Knowledge in Lingnan,” to be published in the first half of 2028.
This special issue welcomes contributions from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences—including cultural and maritime history, geography, economics, literature, and linguistics—focusing on the ancient, modern, or contemporary Lingnan region, broadly understood as encompassing present-day Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan, as well as Hong Kong and Macao.
Submissions should examine how regional knowledge in the geographically peripheral area of Lingnan has been constructed and transmitted over time, and how it has interacted with, drawn upon, negotiated with, or challenged forms of central cultural and political authority through a variety of textual practices, from antiquity to the present. These may include local gazetteers, encyclopaedic compilations, Cantonese dictionaries, travel writings, fiction, poetry, visual and material culture, and the written production of regional academies, among others.
Contributions may address (but are not limited to) the following topics:
Contributors are asked to submit an abstract for discussion with the guest editor via email (ruben.almendros@inalco.fr) prior to preparing the full article. Abstracts should be submitted at the earliest convenience and no later than April 30, 2027. Further detail on house style and how to submit will be provided to accepted abstracts.
Final deadline for papers: July 31, 2027. Early submissions are welcome: suitable articles will be sent for peer review upon receipt, with formal acceptances issued on a rolling basis.
Length: Approximately 10,000 words (including bibliography)
Issue-specific enquiries: ruben.almendros@inalco.fr
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Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 8.1 (2027)
Special Issue: Contested Cultural Flows: Narrating Chinese Culture in Europe
Guest Editors: Nicoletta Pesaro, Marco Fumian
Since the early 2000s, Chinese cultural enterprises have been encouraged by the authorities to “go global”, not only to boost the economic growth of the budding Chinese “cultural industries”, but also increase the “cultural soft power” of the country turning China into a “cultural powerhouse”.
Xi Jinping, in particular, soon after his appointment as CCP General Secretary, warned about the need to “expand the capacity of the international communication”, so as to “tell China’s stories well, convey China’s voice effectively, and enhance our discourse power internationally”. In this context, Chinese writers and artists were deemed “irreplaceable” in their role of charming foreign audiences by presenting to them the unique views of the Chinese people.
Given these circumstances, this special issue aims to explore what kind of cultural representations, and which specific dynamics of cultural international dissemination, have been promoted within this framework over the last fifteen years (ca. 2011–2026), focusing on the domains of literature, cinema and the arts. Concentrating on a number of important case studies drawn from European cultural markets, we invite research articles which place emphasis on the interaction between the Chinese official institutions and cultural industries, and/or between Chinese cultural producers and foreign cultural agents operating locally. These interactions will not be treated as monolithic unidirectional movements but as case-specific relations of co-production which may confirm or challenge the official narratives promoted at the central level.
Contributions are welcome to focus on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
Contributors are required to submit an abstract (max. 250 words) for discussion with the guest editors Nicoletta Pesaro (xiaopei@unive.it) and Marco Fumian (mfumian@unior.it) prior to preparing the full article. Further detail on house style and how to submit will be provided to accepted abstracts.
Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2026
Notification of abstract acceptance: July 31, 2026
Submission of full articles: November 15, 2026
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Call for contributions
The editors of JEACS invite submissions for a forthcoming special issue scheduled for publication in 2026.
This open call welcomes contributions that critically reflect on the state of Chinese Studies in Europe. Building on the anniversary symposium held in Paris in November 2025, the issue will contain articles that examine the conditions shaping the field from a wide range of perspectives. We especially welcome contributions that provide well-grounded reflections with strong methodological, theoretical, or conceptual relevance, while we are also interested in personal experience-based perspectives that shed light on broader developments in the field.
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Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
Special issue: Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture
Guest editors:
Raffaela Rettinger (JMU Würzburg)
Elizabeth Smithrosser (Academia Sinica)
Call for contributions
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. This collation would aim to resonate with the thematic topography of the issue as a whole, therefore interviews are to be submitted on a solicited basis only. Please email the guest editors with potential ideas.
Final deadline for papers: November 30, 2025. Early submissions are welcome: suitable articles will be sent for peer review upon receipt, with formal acceptances issued on a rolling basis.
Length: approx. 10,000 words (including bibliography).
Submission details: Complete articles should be submitted directly to JEACS, following the instructions here. Contributors are encouraged (but not required) to supply an abstract for discussion with the guest editors via email in advance of preparing the article.
Issue-specific enquiries to: ink.JEACS@gmail.com.
Contributions are welcome to focus on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies
Issue 6.2 (2025)
Call for contributions
The editors of JEACS are pleased to announce that starting this year, the output of the journal will be increased to two issues annually. We therefore invite submissions for the second issue of 2025.
Deadline (for issue 6.2): July 15, 2025. Later submissions will be considered for a subsequent issue.
Further information on format, style, and how to submit is available here.
Enquiries to: journal@chinesestudies.eu.
Research papers
Book reviews
Translation reviews
We are happy to announce the publication of JEACS volume 6.1., "Ciphering and Ruling Modern China's Population (2025)". The contents are accessible, as always, via https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/index.
Read More Read more about Volume 6.1 of JEACS (Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies) is online!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.
Final deadline for submissions: November 30th, 2025.
Read More Read more about [Call for Papers] JEACS special issue: “Ink in Chinese History, Literature, and Culture”The editors of JEACS are pleased to announce that starting this year, the output of the journal will be increased to two issues annually. We therefore invite submissions for the second issue of 2025.
Deadline (for issue 6.2): July 15, 2025.
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Read More Read more about Call for Papers: Special Issue "Ciphering and Ruling China’s Population"Dear contributors, dear peer-reviewers, dear readers,
we are happy to announce that vol. 4 (2023) is now online.
You'll be able to download each contribution here: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/issue/view/652
This volume contains a special section on « Culture and Memory » and another other research article, one spotlight on Sinology, seven book reviews, and a list of PhDs defended in 2022 (at European institutions).
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Read More Read more about Volume 4 of the JEACS (Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies) is online!We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest special issue of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (Volume 3, 2022).
We thank our authors and peer-reviewers for their work!
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The Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies (JEACS) is a fully open access journal: All content is ready to be downloaded from everywhere and free of charge. No login, no individual subscription fees, no paywall, no so-called “author processing fees” or hidden transfer-payments by subscriptions of your library or funding organization.
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