This MCLC special issue offers an academic platform to theorize modern and contemporary Chinese cultural exchange in an Inter-Asian context. We seek to address the issue of cultural globalization critically by focusing on the regional reception, dissemination, and transformation of Chinese culture in Asia, and Asian cultures in Chinese communities. In the spirit of thinking beyond the conventional dichotomy between China and the West and calling attention to the changing relationships between an emerging Greater China and its neighboring countries, we solicit scholarship that analyzes the dynamic interactions between globalized culture and creative local hybridizations in the Chinese-Asian context. Ultimately, we want to look for new ways to provide effective critiques and understandings of cultural globalization beyond the Eurocentric paradigm. We accept both empirical studies and theoretical interpretations, and we particularly welcome those that aim to fuse the two. The parameters of acceptable topics include, but are not limited to:

* The analysis of ideologies detected in trans-Asian Chinese cultural representations or cultural thoughts;
* The reception of mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan films or other cultural products in Asia;
* The influences of Japanese or Korean popular culture in local Chinese cultures;
* The discussion of post-national Chinese identities in an Inter-Asian context;
* The discussion of Chinese cosmopolitanism in an Inter-Asian context;
* New communication networks between Chinese and other Asian peoples developed on the Internet;
* The development of tourism in Chinese societies aimed at attracting Asian visitors.

Inquires should be directed to the guest editors: Kwai-Cheung Lo (kwaiclo@hkbu.edu.hk) and Laikwan Pang (lkpang@cuhk.edu.hk). Deadline for submissions is November 1, 2004. For information on format, interested authors should consult the MCLC Submissions Style Guide

Two hard copies of the submission should be sent separately to the MCLC editor and either one of the guest editors at the addresses below.

Kwai-Cheung Lo
Humanities Programme
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

Laikwan Pang
Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Kirk A. Denton
Editor, MCLC
204 Cunz Hall
The Ohio State University
1841 Millikin Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210