Call for Paper Proposals: Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies 2025
Co-organized by CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies
and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 22 - May 23, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong-Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (CCK-APC) and the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) are thrilled to announce the Young Scholars' Forum in Chinese Studies 2025 (YSF 2025) on the theme " Waterways and Global China: Ecology, Agency, and Cultural Formation".
In recent years, the field of Chinese Studies has witnessed a significant surge in interest regarding China's historical interactions with its rivers, seas, and oceans. This emerging focus not only enriches but also decentralizes the prevailing land-centric narratives that have long dominated the understanding of Chinese history, culture, and society.
At the forthcoming 11th Young Scholars’ Forum in Chinese Studies, we are delighted to announce the theme Waterways and Global China: Ecology, Agency, and Cultural Formation. This theme will investigate the complex dynamism between waterways and the broader context of Global China. The Forum aims to gather emerging scholars and researchers from around the globe to engage in a rigorous exploration of the following subthemes: 1. How rivers, coasts, and seas have shaped China; 2. Community, hydrological landscape, and water infrastructure; 3.Water management, disasters, and the environment in Chinese civilization; 4. Philosophies, religious faiths, symbols, iconographies, and motifs about water; 5. Cultural and knowledge transmission through waterways; 6. Global Chinese communities and their movements; 7.Waterways in literature, art, and cinema.
The Forum will only cover expenses for lodging and round-trip transportation (economy class) for the participants*. The organizer will provide maximum subsidy of 1,000 USD (subject to approval) in transportation. Forum registration is free.
Deadline: Online application due January 6, 2025.
For application, please click here.
For details, please refer to our website at www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/general/forum. For inquiries, please contact Asia-Pacific Centre (apc.cckf@cuhk.edu.hk).

CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (APC)
Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong