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MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of “The Roots of Literature,” by Han Shaogong, translated and introduced by Bert Scruggs. The essay appears below and at its online home: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/online-series/scruggs/. Enjoy, Kirk Denton, MCLC The Roots of Literature By Han Shaogong[1] Translated by Bert Scruggs MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright August 2026) In […]
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Brian Skeratt’s review of Taiwanese Face, Chinese Masks: Yang Mu and His Postcolonial Poetry, by Wen-chi Li. The review appears below and at its online home: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/skeratt/. My thanks to Nicholas Kaldis, our literary studies book review editor, for ushering the review to publication. Kirk Denton, […]
Dear Colleagues, We are writing to announce that the special issue Transnational Memories in Asian Cinemas has been published in L’Atalante, the main Film Studies journal in the Spanish speaking world. The issue is available open access in English and Spanish and can be downloaded as a PDF either in full or by chapter. Link: https://www.revistaatalante.com/index.php/atalante/issue/view/42 […]
Call for Papers Special Issue / Topical Section of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture The Musical Roots of Taiyupian: Music and Taiwanese-language Opera Cinema This special issue or topical section seeks to place the musical roots of Taiwanese-language cinema at the centre of scholarly discussion. It builds on the symposium ‘Starting from Music: 70 […]
Source: NYT (8/19/26) As Economic Pessimism Spreads, China’s Worker-Writers Strike a Chord Poems, essays and books written by working-class writers have garnered recognition in recent years — as well as increasing government attention. By Yan Zhuang A Chinese food delivery driver rushes from gig to gig, measuring time by the number of jobs he completes instead […]
The new double-issue of Chinese Literature and Thought Today is alive online! It features essays on Lu Xun’s contemporary afterlife, The Wandering Earth 2, Chinese film studies beyond “Post-Cinema,” Yan’an 闫安 poetic art, a reevaluation of kin selection in Mencian thought, and a special section on Chinese Mathematical Philosophy. You can also read poems by […]
Source: Cold Window Newsletter #14.5 CWN#14.5: An Anglophone reader’s guide to China’s best literary award (2026 edition), Featuring the Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize longlist By Andrew Rule Welcome back to the Cold Window Newsletter. Normally I put a ton of thought into these posts, but I’m currently neck-deep in the dozens and dozens of hours of […]
Call for Papers | Deterritorializing Artificial Intelligence: East Asia as Method We are inviting scholars to submit proposals for a symposium to be held at Washington University in St. Louis on February 12–13, 2027, titled “Deterritorializing Artificial Intelligence: East Asia as Method.” This two-day symposium aims to develop new approaches for AI research by moving beyond US-centered frameworks…
CFP: On Community: Social Forms in Literature and the Arts, ACLA Seminar 2027 (May 20-23, Houston, TX) Contemporary literature and the arts have taken a community turn. Across diverse cultural contexts, writers and artists conduct fieldwork, interview local residents, participate in social movements, and create works through communities to which they may—or may not—belong. For […]
Please see the link below for a VIRTUAL ACLA seminar on the intersection of ecocriticism and socialist science fiction called Greening the Red Planet: Ecocriticism and Socialist SF, to be held May 15th and 16th. “Socialist,” in this case, need not refer to a specific national or political origin, but science fiction or speculative fiction […]
Source: positions politics (8/4/26) The Dream-Work of Boredom: Remembering Ackbar Abbas (1942-2026) By Tejaswini Niranjana When the news came that Ackbar Abbas was no more, I was shocked that someone who never seemed to grow old could have left us, just like that. I first met him in 2017 at his talk at the University […]