Vol 10 (2020)

Issue 10 provides a mix of three research articles and sixteen responses to our question "What use is Chinese studies in a pandemic" The selected pieces address the question from a full range of disciplines, including crosscultural education, classical sinology, law, media studies, linguistics, gender studies, critical cultural studies, art history, political science, diaspora studies, literary studies, economics, international relations, history, and sociology. Each paper makes an important point about the utility of the humanities and interpretive social sciences in a moment of crisis. In the research articles, Tim Barrett invites us to ponder meditation as a method of creative inspiration in the poetry of the Tang period; Quan Yan and Ernest... More