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  • Message from the Editors
  • Shengli Feng and Virginia Yip

Welcome to the first issue of Journal of Chinese Linguistics (JCL) in 2021. This year marks a milestone in the development of the journal with some important announcements. First, we are pleased to announce the formation of a new editorial board, with 12 new members joining us and 9 existing members continuing to serve JCL. The new members are as follows:

  • Bo Hong ()

    • Capital Normal University, Beijing

  • Guillaume Jacques ()

    • CNRS (CRLAO)-INALCO-EHESS, Paris

  • Bit-Chee Kwok ()

    • The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Yen-Hui Audrey Li ()

    • University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  • Yafei Li ()

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison

  • Barbara Meisterernst ()

    • National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

  • Xiangdong Shi ()

    • Nankai University, Tianjin

  • Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai ()

    • National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu

  • Fuxiang Wu ()

    • Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing

  • Charles Yang ()

    • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  • Boping Yuan ()

    • University of Cambridge, Cambridge

  • Qingzhi Zhu ()

    • The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

It is our pleasure to welcome these internationally recognized scholars to join the editorial board. With their influential scholarship and world leading [End Page iii] stature in their respective areas of expertise, they bring further prestige and renown to JCL.

We also take the opportunity to thank the existing long-serving distinguished members of the editorial board who have rendered steadfast support to JCL through the years and have kindly agreed to remain on the editorial board:

  • Hilary M. Chappell ()

    • EHESS-CRLAO, Paris

  • Chin-Chuan Cheng ()

    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Chu-Ren Huang ()

    • The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

  • Jingxia Lin ()

    • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Tsu-Lin Mei ()

    • Cornell University, Ithaca

  • Alain Peyraube ()

    • CRLAO, Paris

  • Jiaxuan Shen ()

    • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing

  • Ovid J. L. Tzeng ()

    • Academia Sinica, Taipei

  • Feng Wang ()

    • Peking University, Beijing

We pay a special tribute to the senior members who have served on the editorial board during the period when Prof. William S-Y Wang served as Editor from 1973-2018. We look forward to working with all the editorial board members to make JCL a vibrant and stimulating international platform for dissemination of new findings. With a stellar cast and an expanded editorial board encompassing a much broader range of expertise and diversity of theoretical approaches, we hope to gather momentum, create greater impact and raise the visibility of JCL.

On another note, we are glad to inform you that JCL has adopted the ScholarOne Manuscripts system for online submission and peer review as of [End Page iv] January 1, 2021. This is a timely move that will greatly facilitate the submission and review process. From now on, please submit to JCL via the following link: https://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/jclin. We highly value your contributions to the journal and wish to provide you with the highest possible level of service. Please also visit JCL's new official website at http://www.jclhk.com.hk. We look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions.

We'd like to welcome a new member, Yujiao Han () to the editorial team. Yujiao is our new Managing Editor based at the Beijing office of JCL at the Beijing Language and Culture University. We are happy to have Yujiao's support in managing the JCL's editorial office in Beijing which complements the one in Hong Kong.

Last but not least, we would like to thank each and every colleague who reviewed one or more papers for Journal of Chinese Linguistics during the period from January 2019 to November 2020. Their names are listed on the next page. We thank all the reviewers for their support. [End Page v]

Journal of Chinese Linguistics Reviewers (January 2019–November 2020)

  • Hiroyuki Akitani

  • Robert Bauer

  • Hilary Chappell

  • Keith Dede

  • Edward Gibson

  • Zev Handel

  • Nathan Hill

  • Shoji Hirata

  • Christine Lamarre

  • Genevieve Leung

  • Stephen Matthews

  • James Myers

  • Barbara Meisterernst

  • Bee Chin Ng

  • Waltraud Paul

  • Alain Peyraube

  • Daniel Plesniak

  • Ian Roberts...

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