CALL FOR ARTICLES
EDITED VOLUME
CHINA AND THE WEST: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE OTHER IN
CULTURE, ARTS, POLITICS AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Editor: Lili Hernández
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Our response - and sometimes reaction - to
otherness reflects both our possibilities and
our limitations, not only as individuals but as
cultures and societies as a whole. We are either
cautious in acknowledging difference, missing at
times the richness that this entails or, we tend
to emphasize disparities and discrepancies,
building barriers in our coming together with
the other. Polarities such as
sameness/difference, disgust/fascination,
right/wrong, connection/disconnection and
progress/regress are all too human to be
avoidable. Such categories are reflected in
Jervis? suggestion that otherness implies a
propensity to exclude, expel, denigrate or
reduce to inferior status that which does not
belong to the category of ?us?. The other is
often understood as the primitive, the exotic
and the irrational. Jervis suggests nevertheless
that ?the other [?] retains the capacity not
just to inspire fear, but to tempt and
fascinate. Disgust and desire can be very close? (Jervis, 1999, 1) .
The aim of this volume is to present a range of
topics around contemporary China as this is
lived, analysed and studied from a Western
perspective. The book seeks to explore the
tensions, contradictions and ambiguities that
arise, if at all, from the meeting point between
the Eastern country and a number of Western
perspectives, approaches and ways of life. The
book supports a discussion about the possibility
- or impossibility - of establishing a polylogue
where, by acknowledging difference, voices from
a variety of perspectives may be heard.
The editor welcomes contributions which explore
encounters with China from within, providing a
variety of approaches in the fields of
communications, arts, anthropology, translation
and interpreting, cultural studies, sociology, film studies and politics.
The book comprises four thematic sections which include several papers.
1. Everyday Comings and Goings
2. Of Politics and Collective Interactions
3. Networks and Communications in China
4. Culture, arts, images
Scholars are welcome to submit a 300 word
abstract in electronic form by Monday 1st March.
Please submit your abstract as a Word Document
to (lili.hernandez /at/ nottingham.edu.cn). Use Times
New Roman 10 pts fonts for the main text. All text should be single-spaced.
Abstracts should contain the following information:
*Title of paper
*Thematic section
*Name of author
*Affiliation
* Key words
*Bionote (100 words)
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by 31st March 2011
Full articles should be submitted by 15th August 2011
This book will target an academic readership
from various fields such as communications,
arts, anthropology, translation and
interpreting, cultural studies, sociology, film
studies and politics but also a general
readership interested in the meeting between 21st Century China and the West.
--Dr Clifton Evers
Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies
Division of International Communications
Room AB 425
University of Nottingham
199 Taikang East Road
Ningbo, 315100.
Zhejiang Province,
China
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