Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a special issue on “Modernisms’ Chinas.” This special issue seeks to address the ways in which the representation and imagining of “China” was a project for Modernists both within and outside China during the first half of the twentieth century. We welcome submissions on Modernist movements, artists, or critics—whether literary, dramatic, musical, or visual—for which the imagining of China has been central or constitutive project. As indicated by the title’s use of the plural Modernisms, our starting point is that a variety of Modernist projects, with different visions of Modernisms, have often been in competition with one another. Indeed, we hope that articles submitted for this special issue will reveal the ways in which different hopes for and dreams of China have been involved in the formation of these differences between Modernisms. We welcome submissions that focus on “China-as-project” of Chinese Modernisms, and also those that focus on “China-as-project” of Modernisms in Asia, as well as in Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere. Within this framework, authors may wish to pursue, but are by no means limited to:

• Fresh and interesting approaches to the vision of China in the work of canonical Modernist figures, such as Lu Xun and Ezra Pound as well as original material on non-canonical figures.
  
• Nationalism, internationalism, and the politics of Modernist visions of China, for example, in Rabindranath Tagore’s pan-Asianism.
  
• Modernist appropriations of “traditional China” for example, in Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
  
• Travel, translation, and meetings (literal and metaphorical) of Modernists across cultures, for example, Lin Fengmian in Paris, or W. H. Auden in China.
  
• The vision of China as a focus of disputes between rival movements, for example, between May Fourth literary societies, or between Bloomsbury and Vorticism.

The issue is to be guest edited by Judith Green (King’s College, Cambridge, UK). All submissions to this special issue will be put through the normal MCLC peer review process. Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2005. For information on format, interested authors should consult the MCLC Submissions Style Guide.

Submissions should be sent to the MCLC editor (one hard copy), at the address below, and the guest editor (as an email attachment in Word) at ehayot@u.arizona.edu

Eric Hayot
English Department
University of Arizona

Kirk A. Denton
Editor, MCLC
398 Hagerty Hall
The Ohio State University
1775 College Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
USA