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Updates about some recent publications, in English, Chinese & Spanish

Can't believe I haven't updated this blog for almost three years! Here are a few updates about recent publications, in reverse chronological order:

1. The May 2025 issue of Foreign Literature (外国文学) just published a special section in commemoration of Professor Wang Zuoliang (王佐良), who passed away 30 years ago in 1995. I contributed an article on Professor Wang's views about how to develop a Chinese paradigm of writing foreign literary histories. My piece discusses how Prof. Wang's work speaks to contemporary academic scholarship in both the humanities and the social sciences. If you don't read Chinese, you will find that the online platform where the journal is published has instant AI translation of Chinese texts into English. It's amazing, and certainly very convenient. The multilingual platform is called HSS Online and was launched last year by Foreign Language & Teaching Press in Beijing. 

2. I'm extremely pleased to have an interview about Chinese internet and social media published in the May 2025 issue of Revista de la Universidad de México. The interview was done with Sandra Barba in English but was published in Spanish because the journal is in Spanish.

3. Another interview was done in Chinese with two scholars in Nanjing University where we discuss my 2020 English article "Communication as Translation." They also asked me about my intellectual trajectories. The interview was just published in the March 2025 issue of Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication (国际新闻界). The articles in this journal, as well as in Foreign Literature, are open-access.

4. This is also a good time to mention a second interview done recently in Chinese, entitled "Lived Experience, Inter-Disciplinary Knowledge Production and Critical Reflections in an Age of Uncertainty." It was published last year in the Hong Kong-based journal Communication & Society. The second part of the article is the English version.

5. Last year, together with two colleagues (Jingyi Gu and Junyi Lv), we guest-edited a special issue on "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" for the journal Communication and the Public. You will find the first part of the special here, all open-access.

6. Also last year, with two other colleagues (Bingchun Meng and Elaine Yuan), we edited a book entitled Pandemic Crossings: Digital Technology, Everyday Experience, and Governance in the COVID-19 Crisis. It is included in the "US–China Relations in the Age of Globalization" series of the Michigan State University Press edited by Stephen Hartnett. We thank Stephen for his excellent editorial guidance.  And congratulations to Stephen on his forthcoming new book The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism.


 

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