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JOURNALS PUBLISHING ON MODERN CHINESE CULTURE

This list contains both print and e-journals.

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General

African and Asian Studies

The American Asian Review (St. John's University) [general theme of modernization of East Asian; has published articles on literature]

The American Journal of Chinese Studies [political science,sometimes literature and culture]

Asian Anthropology (Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002-))

Asian Culture (The Singapore Society of Asian Studies, Singapore)

Asian Journal of Social Sciences 

Asian Libraries: The Library and Information Management Journal for Asia and the Pacific

Asian Survey (East Asian Studies, University of California)

Asian Studies Review (University of Queensland, Australia)

British Columbia Asian Review (refereed annual journal of graduate research, Department of Asian Studies, Asian Centre, University of British Columbia)

Beijing Spring (Beijing zhi chun) [dissident journal published in the US]

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [see Critical Asian Studies, below]

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) [includes EastAsia, Middle East and Africa, cultural subjects]

China: An International Journal (Singapore) [the Journal focuses on contemporary China, including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, covering the fields of politics, economics, society, law, culture and international relations] [Project Muse journal]

China Brief: A Journal of Information and Analysis (The Jamestown Foundation)

China Information: A Journal on Contemporary China Studies (Leiden, The Netherlands)

The China Journal (formerly, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, Canberra) [focus on modern China; frequently contains articles on literature, especially contemporary]

China Perspectives (Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine contemporaine, HK) [English edition of the French language journal Perspective Chinoises, general focus on the social, economic, and political, with occasional essays on culture]

The China Quarterly (London) [contemporary China; literature articles appear occasionally]

The China Review (Hong Kong) [The China Review is a continuation of China Review, an annual publication of The Chinese University Press since 1990. The new journal will be published twice a year in March and September; like its predecessor,it is a scholarly journal covering various disciplines of study on Greater China and its people, namely, domestic politics and international relations; society, business and economic development; modern history, the arts and cultural studies. Teachers, scholars, researchers, journalists and students interested in the developments of China will find this publication a comprehensive and indispensable tool.]

China Review International (University of Hawaii) [devoted to reviews of books on Chinese studies; occasionally has good review articles, or issue articles] [PROJECT MUSE LINK]

Chinese Cross Currents (Shenzhou jiaoliu) [journal of the Macau Ricci Institute; began publication in 2004]

The Chinese Historical Review (formerly Chinese Historians, journal of the Chinese Historians in the United States)

Chung-Wai Literary Monthly (Zhongwai wenxue) [National Taiwan University; in Chinese]

Columbia East Asian Review (Columbia University; New York)

The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies (Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Critical Asian Studies (formerly, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars; University of Colorado, Boulder)

E-ASPAC: Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (e-journal of ASPAC, the official west coast branch of AAS)

East Asian History (Australia) [publishes much on social history]

East Asia Forum (University of Toronto) [forum for the publication of Canadian graduate students]

Education About Asia (Association for Asian Studies)

European Journal of East Asian Studies (Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon)

Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies (University of Auckland) [The Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that showcases the original work of graduate students. Taking advantage of online publishing, GJAPS aims to be at once dynamic, interdisciplinary and innovative.GJAPS will publish thought-provoking interdisciplinary articles, reviews, commentary and visual works that engage critical issues, themes and debates related to the Asia-Pacific region and its peoples.]

Harvard China Review (Harvard University)

Harvard Asia Pacific Review (Harvard University)

Historiography East and West

IIAS Newsletter (newsletter of the International Institute for Asian Studies)

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Taiwan)

International Journal of Asian Studies (Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo) [IJAS is an interdisciplinary, English-language forum for research in the social sciences and humanities. IJAS examines Asia on a regional basis, emphasising patterns and tendencies that go beyond the borders of individual countries. It is particularly interested in locating contemporary changes within a historical framework, especially using interdisciplinary approaches, and so promotes comparative studies involving the various regions of Asia. As well as encouraging contributions from western scholars, IJAS focuses attention on the work of Asian scholars, in order to encourage multi-directional communication across the international Asian studies community. It includes both themed and general issues.

Journal of Asian American Studies [Project Muse journal]

The Journal of Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies) [all fields, all periods of East Asia and Southeast Asia]

Journal Asiatique [The Journal Asiatique , started in 1822, is the oldest orientalist journal published in France and the official organ of the Société Asiatique de Paris. Since its inception, it has been devoted to the publication of highly erudite articles presenting the results of new and achieved researches. Initially mostly devoted to orientalist philology and history, it has come to cover all the disciplines of both the humanities and the social sciences for an area stretching from the Near East to Japan. Besides French, the languages accepted for publication are English, German, Italian, and Spanish.]

Journal of Chinese Philosophy (University of Hawaii)

Journal of Chinese Political Science (Association of Chinese Political Studies)

Journal of Contemporary China (Colby College, ME)

Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia

Ling Lung Women's Magazine (electronic copies of this 1930's Shanghai magazine, archived by Columbia University Library)

Minima Sinica (University of Bonn)

Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University) [publisheson wide range of subjects of Southeast and East Asia, with emphasison social sciences]

Modern China (UCLA) [JSTOR link; modern Chinese politics; occasionalarticles on relation between politics and literature]

Monumenta Serica (Germany) [general, all fields and periodsof Chinese studies]

Nan nu: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China (Leiden) [new journal on gender in China; first issue to appear in 1999]

New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (fromerly New Zealand Journal of East Asian Studies, official journal of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society)

The Nineties (Jiushi niandai) (Hong Kong; ceased publication)

Oriens Extremus (Hamburg) [general Asia]

Pacific Affairs (University of British Columbia)

Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie (Paris)

Sino-Japanese Studies (Joshua Fogel, editor)

Sinorama (Taiwan)

Sinologie-Gilonosie (e-journal in French, edited by Gregory Lee and Isabelle Lee)["to defy biases, interrogate presumptions and overturn preconceptionsabout China and Asia"]

Southeast Review of Asian Studies

Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs

Studies on Asia (e-journal sponsored by Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs; published by the Asian Studies Center Michigan State University)

Twentieth Century China (formerly, Republican China)[primarily a history journal, but occasionally publishes articles on literature]

The Virginia Review of Asian Studies

Wittenburg East Asian Studies Jouranl(Wittenburg University, Sprinfield, Ohio)


Literature and Culture (includes literary journals and e-journals)

Acta Asiatica: Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture (Tokyo: Toho Gakkai)

Acta Orientalia (Budapest)

Archiv Orientalni (Oriental Institute of the Czech. Academyof Sciences) [wide range of articles on all aspects of Asia]

Asia Major (Academica Sinica, Taiwan) [China, all periods,all fields, with focus on pre-modern times]

Asian and African Studies (Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) [website has PDF versions of all contents from 1995-present]

Asian Folklore Studies (Nanzan University, Japan) [publisheson folklore of East Asia]

Asian Theater Journal [University of Hawaii; PROJEC MUSE journal]

Asiatica Venetiana (Department of East Asian Studies, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy).

Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques (Zurich) [all Asia, all periods, all fields]

Beijing wenxue (Beijing literature) [PRC literary journal]

Chinese Culture, a Quarterly Review (Taiwan) [general China;frequent articles on literature]

Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (Bloomington,Indiana) [one of the few journals devoted to Chinese literature:all periods; a PROJECT MUSE journal]

Chinese Literature (Beijing) [translation of all periods of Chinese literature, emphasis on modern]

The Chinese Pen (Taipei) [translations of Taiwan writers]

Chinoperl Papers (Cornell) [specializes in the performingarts of China]

Chung’guk Hyondae munhak (The Journal of modern Chinese literature). Korean Modern Chinese Literature Association.

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal (Purdue e-journal)

Comparative Literature (Oregon)

Comparative Literature and Culture Bulletin (Chinese Universityof HK) [mostly information related to the study of comparativeliterature in China, but also publisheds studies]

Comparative Literature: East and West (Ed. Cao Shunqing, Sichuan University) [biannual publication since 1999).

Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State; Project Muse journal) [one issue every two years devoted to East-West relationships]

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (English Department, National Taiwan University)

Cowrie [editors, Sun Jingyao and Mark Bender; English language comparative literature journal published out of Guangxi University in the 1980s]

Critical Inquiry (Chicago) [important journal in contemporary criticaltheory; has published on Chinese literature, though rarely]

Dangdai (Contemporary) ([PRC literary journal]

Dangdai (Con-Temporary) [Taiwan cultural studies journal]

Dangdai zuojia pinglun (Contemporary Writers Review)

Delos (University of Maryland) [translations of world literature]

Dimsum: Asia's Literary Journal [Asian writing in English. Dimsum is an Asian literary journal which appears at irregular intervals. It is written, assembled and edited largely by a community of writers and people in the book business. Most are based in Hong Kong, but some are not, and contribute from as far away as New York. A chunky, physical anthology of fine work appears periodically, and can be purchased online or in some bookshops. The editor is Nury Vittachi and the publisher is Peter Gordon.]

E-Journal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies (University of Hong Kong)

Ershi yi shiji (Twentieth-first century; 1990-) (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Etudes Chinoises (Bulletin de l'assn. francaise d'etudes Chinoises)

Full Tilt (Published every spring, Full Tilt hopes to draw attention to some of the more interesting poets writing in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean today. Each issue will showcase the work of a cutting-edge poet and/or flourishing poetic genre and provide a rich selection of poetry in English translation by new and established poets writing in the major East-Asian languages. We hope you enjoy our journal and would appreciate your sending us a line or two if you do.Editors: Alulu Kuo and Lily Wong)

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Cambridge, MA.) [EastAsian, all periods and fields]

Huazhao wenxue yuekan [literary e-journal in GB Chinese]

Interpoetics: Poetry of Asia and the Pacific Rim [e-journal]

Intersections: Gender, History, and Culture in the Asian Context [e-journal produced at Murdoch University, Australia]

Journal of the American Oriental Society (U. of Michigan) [includes East Asia and Middle East, focus on textual studies]

Journal of Asian Culture (UCLA) [annual publication of graduate student papers]

Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association [mostly Chinese linguisticsand language pedagogy; some literature]

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese (Lingnan College, HK)

Journal of Oriental Studies (Hongkong) [East Asian, allperiods, all fields]

Liaoyuan (online Chinese-language literary journal)

Lu Xun yanjiu (Lu Xun research) [Tables of Content]

Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing [occassionally publishes translations of Chinese literature]

Minzu wenxue (Folk literature)

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (The Ohio State University) [formerly Modern Chinese Literature, English language journal devoted to modern Chinese literature, film, cultural studies]

New Asia Pacific Review (now defunct; print and on-line; "each quarterly issue of New Asia-Pacific Review contains lively and informative essays and feature articles addressing contemporary and relevetant arts, cultural and policy issues")

New Literary History (University of Virginia)

New Threads (Xin Yusi)[literary e-journal in GB Chinese]

Olive Tree [literarye-journal in GB Chinese]

Persimmon [an e-journal in GB Chinese devoted to experimental writing]

Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture [is a magazine on contemporary Asian culture based in New York]

Poetry International Web--China [PIW offers not just excellent poetry from around the world but also articles, interviews and critical appreciations of the poets and their work. ]

PoetrySky (new bilingual journal that is a "professional platform for the poetic exchange between Chinese, American and English poets"; edited by Yidan Han, Providence, Rhode Island)

positions: aast asia cultures critique (Duke University) [Western theory and East Asia] [Positions on Project Muse]

PMC: Postmodern Culture (e-journal founded in 1990)

Public Culture [not infrequently publishes on China, HK culture]

Qidian (Rising point) [fantasy literature portal]

Renditions (Hongkong) [translations of all periods of Chinese literature]

Renmin wenxue (People's literature) [see also Renmin wenxue on Longyuan qikan wang]

Review of Modern Literature in Chinese (Lingan College, HK) [mostly in Chinese]

Salt Hill [small literary journal that sometimes publishes translations of Chinese poetry]

Shige bao (Poetry gazette) [monthly poetry magazine, one of the leading poetry journals in the PRC]

Shi kan (Poetry journal)

Shinmatsu shosetsu kenkyu (Late Qing fiction studies). Nara: Shinmatsu Shosetsu Kenkyukai, 1977-.

Signs (University of Chicago Press) [focus on women in culture and society;will publish on women's issues in Chinese literature]

Sinabooks (books reviews, etc; in Chinese, no Chinese browser needed)

Standards: The International Journal of Multicultural Studies (e-hournal hosted by University of Colorado, Boulder)

Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series (Tu Kuo-ch'ing,editor; UC Santa Barbara)

Tamkang Review (Taiwan) [Chinese literature of all periods]

Taohong man tianxia (e-journal devoted to gay issues)

Theater Insight (University of Texas, Austin)

Theater Journal [Project Muse journal]

Tinfish (University of Hawaii, English Dept) [occasionally publishes contemporary Chinese poetry]

T'oung Pao (Leiden, Holland) [emphasis on classical literature,textual studies]

The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies (Qing Hua xuebao)(Hsinchu, ROC) [Chinese literature and social sciences of all periods; in English and Chinese]

Two Lines: A Journal of Translation (San Francisco)

Unitas (Lianhe wenxue) [Taiwan literary journal]

Weiming Magazine (An online forum for Chinese arts and literature; in Chinese)

Wenxue pinglun (Literary Review) [Tables of Contents]

Wenxue ziyou tan (Free forum on literature) [Tables of Content]

Wenxun (Literary dispatch) [Tables of Content]

Wenyi bao (Literary gazette)

Wenyi lilun yanjiu (Theoretical research on the literaryarts) [Tables of Contents]

Wenyi lilun yu piping (Theory and criticism of the literaryarts) [Tables of Contents]

Wenyi pinglun (Literature and art criticism) [Tables of Content]

Wenyi yanjiu (Literary arts research) [Tables of Content]

Wenyi zhengming (Literary debate) [Tables of Content]

Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature (Bard College, NY)

World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) [occasional article on Chinese literature]

Xiaoshuo xuankan (Journal of selected fiction)

Xin wenxue shiliao (Historical materials on the new literature).

Yearbook of Comparativeand General Literature (Bloomington)

Zhongguo xiandai dangdai wenxue yanjiu (Research on modernand contemporary Chinese literature). [Tables of Contents]

Zhongguo xiandai wenxue yanjiu congkan (Collection of researchon modern Chinese literature). [available online through Wangfang shuju]

Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship)

Zhongguo xiandai zhuming zuojia yanjiu (Research on famous modern Chinese writers). [Tables of Contents]

Zhongguo xiaoyuan wenxue (China campus literature)

Zhongguo zuojia (China writer)

Zhongwai wenxue (Chinese and foreign literature) [Tables of Content]

Zuojia (Writer)

Zuojia wenzhai diancang (Writers digest)


Film and Media Studies

Asian Cinema

Asian Cinema Weekly [online journal edited by Sungji Oh]

Asian Journal of Communications

Asian Trash Cinema

bc magazine (Hong Kong, general entertainment magazine; see also their Singapore edition)

Beijing dianying xueyuan xuebao (Journal of the Beijing Film Academy).

Bright Lights Film Journal

Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies (Duke UP; Project Muse journal)

China Media Research (English language scholarly journal put out by Zhejiang University)

China Screen

CineAction (Toronto) [regularly publishes on Chinese film; with some special issues]

Cineaste

Cinema Journal (Project Muse journal)

Cinema Scope (Canadian journal devoted to International cinema)

Cinemaya, the Asian Film Magazine [online subscription necessary to read articles]

Cinevue (journal of Asian CineVision)

Dazhong dianying (Mass film) (1950-) [popular movie magazine]

Dangdai dianying (Contemporary film; 1984-) [scholarly]

Dianying (Film; 1979-; formerly Dianying tongxun)

Dianying xinshang (Taiwan Film Archives)

Dianying yishu (early 50s-) [scholarly]

Dianying liangyou zhoukan (Film Biweekly) [requires Chinese browser; HK film journal)

Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (1989-) [Project Muse journal]

East-West Film Journal (1986-1994)

Film Comment

Film Current

The Film Journal [a central Ohio-based, independently produced, online film publication, which seeks to contribute to the community of serious-minded film websites by being a forum for eclectic film criticism, study and discussion. The Film Journal seeks to highlight local film events, as well as feature international film writing. Launched in March 2002, The Film Journal stresses the importance of an ongoing dialogue on both contemporary and classic cinema]

Film Journal International

Film Quarterly

Funscreen Weekly (Fangying zhoubao) [Taiwan-based online journal in Chinese devoted to film, with good coverage of Taiwan film]

HK: Orient Extreme Cinema (Paris)

Hong Kong Film Connection

Hong Kong Film Magazine

The Illuminated Lantern ("revealing the heart of Asian cinema")

International Film Guide (published by Variety) [has sectionsfor PRC, Taiwan and Hongkong]

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

Journal of Chinese Cinemas (Song Hwee Lim, editor) [new journal beginning 2007]

Jump Cut

Media Asian

New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film

Offscreen (Montreal webzine)

Post Script (Texas A and M; Georgia Tech)

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

Screen

Senses of Cinema (an online film journal devoted to the  serious and eclectic discussion of cinema; publishes occasionally on Chinese film)

Screening the Past (an international electronic journal of visualmedia and history)

Sight and Sound [British Film Institute]

Wide Angle

Zhongguo dianying zhoubao (China film weekly)


Visual Arts

Art Asia Pacific

Asian Art (the on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts in Asian)

Asian Art News

Contemporary Art: Chinese Type (journal of contemporary Chinese art)

Kongjian (Space) [Taiwan architecture and design magazine]

Modern Asian Art (editor, John Clark)

New Cyber-Chinatown (Japan-based e-zine on contemporary mainland non-official culture)

Orientations (The maagazine for collectors and connoiseurs of Asian art)

Yi Shu: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (editor Ken Lum) [new journal that begins publication in 2002.


Music

Asian Music (Journal of the Society for Asian Music)

British Journal of Ethnomusicology

Chime (Leiden, The Netherlands)

Chinese Music (Chinese Music Society of North America)

Ethnomusicology On-Line (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Music from China Newsletter (from the Music from China ensemble; in English, GB, and Big5)

Association for Chinese Music Research Reports (University of Pittsburgh)

Shanghai Life (on the music scene in Shanghai)

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