Thrilled that our proposal was accepted for the symposium The Politics of Knowledge Production about China, organized by The China Quarterly. The call for proposals was:
Since the launch in 1960, The China Quarterly has been one of the leading journals where scholars from a wide range of disciplines publish their research on China. Building on the wealth of knowledge accumulated in the past decades and the hindsight gained through observing the evolution of our field, we are now at a critical juncture that calls for reflection on the relationship between China studies and knowledge production. This task is increasingly urgent, given the epistemological shift within the academy and a geopolitical climate that conditions social science and humanities research on multiple levels.
How can China scholars around the world maintain their academic independence in such a charged geopolitical environment? How can China studies better engage with recent debates on decolonising knowledge production, especially in regard to positionality and epistemology?
How should we evaluate the negotiation between disciplinary scholarship – such as political science, sociology and anthropology – and China studies in the past decades, and how do we envision the intellectual agenda moving forward? What are the new challenges faced by China studies at theoretical, epistemological and methodological levels? Amidst the vociferous discursive field where academics, media, think tanks and politicians are all trying to claim credentials on China expertise, how can scholars of China studies better navigate the current ecology of knowledge production?
Excited for the conversations coming up in June!