Notes from the Editors

We are pleased to announce that beginning in January 2016 the publication frequency of The China Review will be increased from two to three issues per year. This change is motivated both by the increasing number of submissions as well as by our vision that this journal serves as a major interdisciplinary journal in the field of China Studies. We sincerely hope that by expanding the content scope and shortening the turnaround time, the journal will better be able to provide the results of outstanding research, on a timely basis, to the rapidly-growing China Studies community.

Edited and published in Hong Kong, the first issue of The China Review, appearing in 2001, evolved from an annual publication by the same title that had been published by The Chinese University Press since 1990. The China Review has always taken seriously its mission to serve as a bridge between the communities of Anglophone and Sinophone researchers. To this end, in 2011 we launched a new section dedicated to publishing state-of-the-field reviews on Sinophone scholarship, broadly defined as academic works published in Chinese by scholars from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and beyond. Importantly, this endeavor seeks to present valuable new perspectives from the often neglected Sinophone communities. We invite scholars at the forefront of the respective China studies communities to provide surveys of the most up-to-date Chinese-language literature. The very favorable response to this new initiative during the past several years has confirmed the value of this unique contribution to the English-speaking scholarly communities. We also warmly welcome new submissions of state-of-the-field reviews in various disciplines and hope to expand the scope of this section to include surveys on the latest status of the field of China Studies in other non-English-speaking regions.

The year of 2016 will also mark the publication of a new book, Sinology in Post-Communist States: Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia, which has been adapted from a recent special issue of The China Review. This forthcoming book represents an expanded version of the original Fall 2014 special issue, edited by Professor Chih-yu Shih. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first volume solely dedicated to studying the history, traditions, status, and challenges to the field of sinology in these former socialist states. In the future, in order to reach a wider audience, we plan to publish additional academic monographs based on selected special issues of The China Review on significant topics.