How Has the Outer World Engaged Chinese Literature?
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
China’s literary and cultural history is long and, seen across the arc of time, makes for its own compelling story. But what about how others outside of the Celestial Kingdom have received and responded to it? How has its reception resulted in an interrogation of established norms, in the creation of fresh transcultural realities, truths, or ways of seeing? What conceptual rearrangements have resulted? Much has been written about the reception of Chinese literature and culture by former imperialist powers—and this continues to be important—but what about the engagement of other nations, principalities, or ethnic or cultural groups with Chinese literary and cultural elements? What is their story? Gathering and sharing them constitutes our purpose in this Special Issue of the Journal of the Humanities. Abstracts are due by July 2025, followed by 4000-word minimum submissions for peer review (due at the end of February 2026), with the journal to be published in the same year.
Prof. Dr. Robert Kibler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Chinese influence
- global literature
- art
- music
- philosophy
- culture
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