Editorial Policy. Chinese Literature Today welcomes submissions on contemporary Chinese literary and cultural topics. Our preference is for a clear and lively discussion style intended for a broad audience, accompanied by a minimum of scholarly apparatus. A manuscript, or its essential content, must not have been published previously in English or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Contributors will receive a free copy of the issue in which their work appears.Advance inquiries, addressed to Deputy Chief Editor Jonathan Stalling (at stalling@ou.edu), are welcome. Please include in the body of your e-mail or cover letter a brief explanation concerning the parameters and purpose of your essay and how it contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation about contemporary Chinese literature or culture. If we invite you to submit the full text of your essay, our preference is for e-mail attachments in MS Word (PC or Mac), with formatting (styles) kept to a minimum. Submissions may also be addressed to the editor at the address below.
N.B. We are especially interested in previously translated unpublished Chinese literature (short fiction and poetry), and invite you to submit samples or full texts for review.
Length of Prose Texts. Regular articles should have a maximum length of 5,000 words (approximately 20 double-spaced pages), but we are interested in shorter essays as well (2,500 words or even shorter will be considered).
Book Review Style Guide
Inquiries. Please send inquiries about books you would like to review, including as much information (author, title, publisher, publication date, price, and ISBN) as possible, to Jonathan Stalling (stalling@ou.edu).
Length. Our preference is for reviews in the range of 350-400 words; the maximum length is 500 words. Please observe the word limit. Not all reviews received can be published, and overlong reviews will be returned for revision or edited as needed to fit available space.
Submitting reviews. Please submit your review electronically, preferably in the form of a fully formatted e-mail attachment directed to the Assistant Editor, Julie Shilling (jshilling@ou.edu). Diskettes are not necessary. If possible, please use MS Word when typing your review. We also accept hard copies of reviews submitted to our address below or via fax at 405-325-7495.
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