[Commlist] Special Issue for the International Communication Gazette: Comparing Communication Studies Beyond China

*CFP: Special Issue for the International Communication Gazette: *
*Comparing Communication Studies Beyond China*

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Jun Liu, (University of Copenhagen) at: (liujun /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(liujun /at/ hum.ku.dk)>;
Chris Chao Su, (University of Copenhagen) at: (chris.su /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(chris.su /at/ hum.ku.dk)>.


In 2004, Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini published their classic 
book, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics, 
outlining three major models of media system development. Eight years 
later, the authors invited a group of scholars from outside Western 
Europe and North America to contribute papers and co-edited Comparing 
Media Systems Beyond the Western World (Hallin & Mancini, 2012), 
“calling for an extension of comparative analysis beyond a framework 
centered on Western cases” (p. 3). Cases such as those of Israel (Peri, 
2012), Russia (Vartanova, 2012), South Africa (Hadland, 2012), and China 
(Zhao, 2012) were included in the “most similar systems” design to 
supplement the scope of their original framework. Against this 
background, this proposed special issue recommends further consideration 
of the Chinese case, referring to both similarities and differences 
between China and other countries of the world.

Over the past thirty years, China has undergone extraordinary changes in 
its media and communication system, with significant implications, both 
domestically and internationally. Correspondingly, the scholarship on 
media and communication studies focusing on Greater China—including the 
Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, and the global 
Chinese diaspora—has burgeoned in recent years, as witnessed by the 
rapidly increasing number of journals, such as the Chinese Journal of 
Communication and Global Media and China. Despite the significance of 
China's media and communication changes and the vigor of the scholarship 
addressing these changes, little is known about how such scholarship 
would tackle other subfields and the core debates and developments in 
communication studies beyond China. Such lacunae not only leads to the 
low visibility of China-specific research in some fields but also 
hinders potential opportunities for the development of universally 
applicable theories beyond the case of China. In sum, the proposed 
special issue offers a comparative and cross-cultural perspective on the 
current investigations about the Chinese media and communicative 
environment, provides a comprehensive and careful outlook on the 
insights to be gained from comparing the Chinese media system with its 
counterparts in the world, and ultimately attempts to reflect on both 
differences and similarities between China and other countries across a 
spectrum of social and cultural factors.

In this proposed special issue, we look for original, rigorous, and 
creative contributions and reflections based on the communication 
phenomena in Greater China yet speak beyond the case of China. 
Importantly, we hope to reflect on the impact of communication studies 
addressing Greater China on debates and developments in a broader field 
of communication studies. The papers can be primarily theoretical or 
based on empirical studies, addressing micro level as well as macro 
level research questions. In all forms, the papers should make explicit, 
original, and substantial contributions to the relevance and the 
implications of their research beyond China.

Please direct all inquiries and submissions to the guest editors (not to 
the journal):
Jun Liu, (University of Copenhagen) at: (liujun /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(liujun /at/ hum.ku.dk)>;
Chris Chao Su, (University of Copenhagen) at: (chris.su /at/ hum.ku.dk) 
<mailto:(chris.su /at/ hum.ku.dk)>.


Manuscripts should strictly adhere to the ICG submission guidelines 
(https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/international-communication-gazette#ManuscriptPrep) 
and must be submitted through email to *the guest editors *no later than 
*February 1th 2020*. Please clearly state in your email that the 
manuscript is submitted to the special issue “Comparing Communication 
Studies Beyond China”.


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