MCLC: East Asian Comp Lit and Culture book series

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Qin Higley <QHigley at brillusa.com>
Subject: East Asia Comp Lit and Culture book series
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Brill is to launch a new book series on East Asia Comparative Literature
and Culture. The series editors are Professor ZHANG Longxi (City
University, Hong Kong) and Professor Wiebke Denecke (Boston University,
Boston). The following scholars will serve on the Editorial Board:
Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina), Ronald Egan (University
of California, Santa Barbara), Joshua Fogel (York University, Canada),
Alexander Huang (George Washington University), Peter Kornicki (Cambridge
University, UK), Karen Thornber (Harvard University), and Rudolf Wagner
(Heidelberg University, Germany).
 

With the increasing international importance of East Asia in economic,
political, and cultural terms, more and more readers are interested in
better understanding this part of the world which can boast long-standing
histories and traditions as well as vibrating modern cultures. This new
book series publishes substantial comparative research on the literary and
cultural traditions of premodern and modern East Asia and their relations
to other parts of the world. It welcomes in particular forms of
comparative analysis that combine the depth of area-study-expertise and
philology with theoretical acumen and a courageous orientation towards
fundamental questions.
 

The series aims to showcase original research on the methodology and
practice of comparison in three main areas: intra-Asian comparisons of
China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam; East-West comparisons that examine
Western alongside East Asian traditions and explore their historical
encounters and cultural interactions; and multi-polar studies that examine
East Asian literatures and cultures in light of their relations with
South-Asia, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America. The series focuses
on the core humanities such as literature, history, religion, philosophy
and thought, art history, and archeology, but also welcomes contributions
adopting culturally-informed approaches in anthropology, political
science, sociology, or linguistics.
 

The series is directed at scholars and graduate students of East Asia and,
more broadly, comparatists engaged in the study of various literary and
cultural traditions around the world. We publish English-language
monographs, edited volumes, and, occasionally, English translations of
outstanding scholarship in other languages.
 

We welcome submissions of book proposals and manuscripts for consideration
for inclusion in the series.  Submissions should be in English and can be
sent to the attention of the Publishing Editor, Qin Higley at
qhigley at brillusa.com or the Series Editors, ZHANG Longxi at
ctlxzh at cityu.edu.hk or Wiebke Denecke atdenecke at bu.edu.