Category: Capacity Building

Oxford, UK ● July 4-5, 2020

      Deadline for Submissions: May 8, 2020

Conference Venue: St. Anne’s College, Oxford University

We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Annual Conference of the International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) will be held on July 4-5, 2020 at Oxford, UK. The conference will be hosted by Dept. of Sociology, University of Oxford, UK.

The International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) is a nonprofit organization, registered in California, USA, which aims to promote social scientific research on Chinese societies, cultures, and populations in the world. The 2020 conference theme is “Family Change and Inequality in Chinese Societies and beyond.” The conference also welcomes submissions on other topics of interest to the ICSA members. Papers offering comparative perspectives on are particularly welcome. Both complete papers and extended paper abstracts in English will be considered. Paper abstracts must contain sufficient details to suggest timely completion (normally, 5 pages or more). Please provide all authors’ names, organizational affiliations, and email addresses.

Graduate students are invited to compete for the ICSA 2020 Nan Lin Graduate Student Paper Award. One paper (published or unpublished) will be selected and the award will be announced and presented with a plaque and a check of USD 500 at the conference, as well as a travel subsidy. 

Papers to be considered for the Nan Lin Paper Award must be (1) authored by student(s) only, (2) in English, and (3) to be presented at the 2020 ICSA Conference. Student status must be valid as of the end of Spring 2020. Only complete papers will be considered. Please mark *Nan Lin Paper Award* in the Subject Area when submitting online.

Instructions for Paper SubmissionsThe ICSA Paper Submission Information Submission Site is available on February 10th at https://www.icsa-sociology.org. The submission deadline is May 8th, 2020. In the event of any technical difficulties, submissions may be emailed to Shaoping She (spshe@ust.hk). For general enquiries, please contact Maggie Ku (icsa@caser.ust.hk).  

Please note that conference participation requires membership in the ICSA. If you are not an active member yet, please become a member first through ICSA’s new homepage: https://icsa-sociology.org. The membership fees: $10 for student memberships, $30 for regular membership fee, and $600 for the lifetime membership fee. 

Important Dates

Feb 7, 2020: On-line submission site opens.

May 8, 2020: Submission deadline.

May 22, 2020: Formal acceptance letters distributed for visa applications.

June 19, 2020: Provisional proram available on the website.

June 30, 2020: Full papers due to organizers/ presiders/ discussants.

July 4-5 2020: Conference

Selected papers presented in the conference will be invited for submission to the following peer review journals:      
1. Chinese Journal of Sociology (CJS) (eISSN: 20571518 | ISSN: 2057150X), founded in 2015 and published by SAGE, is a peer-reviewed, international journal issued by Shanghai University and co-sponsored with Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China (CCC), with an aim to building an academic platform for in-depth discussion of the issues facing contemporary Chinese society from the sociological perspectives.
2. China Review (ISSN: 16802012), published by Chinese University Press in Hong Kong, is the only China-based English journal devoted to the study of Greater China and its people. The journal’s SSCI Impact Factor 0.694 in 2017, being ranked in Q2, 32/68 in area studies.
3. Chinese Sociological Review (CSR) (Print ISSN: 2162-0555 Online ISSN: 2162-0563), founded in 1968, now published by Taylor & Francis Inc. 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. The journal’s SSCI impact factor is 2.3 in 2017, being ranked in Q1, 21/146 in sociology.  

For more information, refer here.

The Overseas Young Chinese Forum is pleased to announce that the 2020 OYCF-Chow Fieldwork Fellowship is open to application from graduate students in humanities, social science and policy studies in a U.S. or Canadian university to conduct fieldwork in China for their thesis projects. In addition, another $500 will be offered as postfieldwork award to the fellowship recipients who demonstrate productive use of the fellowship in a post-fellowship report. Fellowship recipients will be announced on the OYCF website as OYCF-Chow Fellows.

Since 2018, the Overseas Young Chinese Forum has provided several fellowships each year to support field research in China. The fellowship is funded by the contributions of OYCF members and the generous donation by distinguished Princeton University professor emeritus Gregory C. Chow and his wife Paula K. Chow.

For deadline, eligibility and other requirements, please click the link above.  You may also view the research page for information on past recipients and their projects.

Editors

Xiaoge Xu, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn)

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: February 15, 2020
Full Chapters Due: March 3, 2020
Submission Date: June 26, 2020

Introduction

As our world is moving towards an experience economy, we are more willing, and even more eager, to pay for a fun, enjoyable, and memorable experience beyond a product or service. The same situation is also happening in learning Chinese around the world. It is especially the case in mobile learning, which is growing in popularity. Beyond learning Chinese, learners expect to have a fun, enjoyable, and memorable experience associated with or generated by learning Chinese on mobile devices.

Different from the conventional ways of learning Chinese, learning Chinese on mobile devices focuses on achieving hierarchical levels of learners’ needs and desires. Since mobile devices, especially Chinese learning apps, have been widely used in learning, many recorded or unrecorded efforts have been taken to enhance mobile experience in learning Chinese around the world. This edited book invites further efforts to compare mobile experience in learning Chinese among native speakers of different languages or in different environments. The identified similarities, differences and shaping factors will be theorized for a better way to describe, explain, and predict mobile experience in learning Chinese.

This edited book will also include tips and success factors for instructors and learners of Chinese. Most importantly, this edited book is designed to share the knowledge and skills on how to take full advantage of features and functions of mobile devices to enhance mobile experience in learning Chinese, a unique, memorable, and beneficial way of learning Chinese.

Objective

This book will aim to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in applying mobile technologies to Chinese language learning. It will be written for instructors and students of Chinese language who want to improve their teaching or learning respectively, hence enhancing mobile experience in Chinese language learning and teaching.

Target Audience

This edited book targets the global instructors and learners of Chinese as a foreign or second language. It can be used as a textbook, a premier reference book, and a guidebook. It can also be used as a general book for the general audience.

Recommended Topics

The editor of this volume will write an introduction chapter, a chapter on conceptualizing and operationalizing mobile experience in Chinese language learning, theorizing mobile experience in Chinese language learning, and a conclusion. Contributors are welcome to pick up any of the following, not limited to, topics:

1. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among English-Speaking Learners
2. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among French-Speaking Leaners
3. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Russian-Speaking Learners
4. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Spanish-Speaking Learners
5. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among German-Speaking Learners
6. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Japanese-Speaking Learners
7. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Korean-Speaking Learners
8. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Malay-Speaking Learners
9. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Arabic-Speaking Learners
10. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Portuguese-Speaking Learners
11. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese Among Scandinavian Learners
12. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese in Confucius Institutes
13. Mobile experience in Learning Chinese in African countries
14. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese in Game-Based Environments
15. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese in Conversation-Based Environments
16. Mobile Experience in Learning Chinese in AR/VR/MR-Based Environments

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 15 February 2020, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 3, 2020, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Applying Mobile Technologies to Chinese Language Learning. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2021.

Important Dates

Chapter proposal submission deadline: 15 February, 2019
Full chapter submission: Mar 3, 2020
Review results due to editor: Apr 17, 2020
Review results due to authors: May 1, 2020
Revisions due from authors: May 29, 2020
Final acceptance/rejection notification due to authors: Jun 12, 2020
All final accepted materials due from authors: Jun 26, 2020

Inquiries

Prof. Xiaoge Xu, PhD
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
xiaoge.xu@nottingham.edu.cn

I’m Xianan Hu, a second year PhD student in Education at Durham University. 
I’m currently conducting an investigation related to Chinese postgraduate master’s students who have graduated since 2016 or are currently registered at UK or Chinese universities. The questions are related to family background, academic performance, career aspirations and employment situation, and it takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

All answers from this survey are for use in this research only, and the names and other personal information will never be used. All reports will be based on aggregated results and so no individuals or institutions will be identifiable. Information about our data protection policy is available at http://www.dur.ac.uk/ig/dp/. 
I’ll be really grateful if you could complete this questionnaire: https://huxianan.wjx.cn/jq/51423081.aspx, which could be filled out through WeChat or other devices.