Call for Papers
International Conference of ISSCO X
Chinese Overseas and China: Through A Global Lens
Organizers: organized by the School of International Studies and Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China and the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO)
Dates: 8-11 November, 2019
Arrival Date: 8 November 2019
Conference: 9-10 November 2019
Fieldtrip: 11 November 2019 (qiaoxiang)
Languages: Chinese English
Venue: Jinan University, Guangzhou
As we move deeper into the 21stcentury, we are witnessing an intensification of various global flows impacting on a changing socio-economic, socio-political, and socio-cultural landscape. Existing communities have been reconfigured and new communities have arisen as a result of these global flows intersecting and inter-relating in variable ways. From territorial-based to virtual communities, at the local and global levels, communities have become more diverse.
Historically, the Chinese overseas have maintained different kinds of identity, affinity, and relationship with China, as an actual or imagined ancestral homeland. The sentiments and relationships of this group of people with China vary from place to place and change over time, depending on the politics of the respective host countries, China¡¯s position in the world-system, and China¡¯s policies towards ethnic Chinese abroad. In the 21stcentury, with China¡¯s rise to a position of power on the global stage, a different set of opportunities and challenges for the Chinese overseas has also emerged. The opportunities and challenges are intertwined with mixed feelings about China¡¯s role on the global stage (whether a powerful ally or competitive foe), robust or weak connections to China as an ancestral homeland, and personal life and economic strategies, among other forces. Irrespective of their actual relationships with or sentiments about China, however, the Chinese overseas are implicated in all things related to China.
The ISCCO X Conferencetheme ¡°Chinese Overseas and China: Through A Global Lens¡± welcomes multidisciplinary scholarship on Chinese Overseas and China that will shed light on various issues including migration, identity and cultural formation, social, economic and political interaction.
Proposed topics include, but are not limited to the following:
Submission
Important Deadlines
Deadline for submitting abstract: 15 March 2019
Notification of selected abstracts: 10 May 2019
Deadline for submitting full paper: 16 September 2019
Further Details
Inquiries
Contact person: Ms. XU Hanpeng
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Website: https://sis-aocs.jnu.edu.cn; http://www.issco.info/