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Journal of Chinese Overseas

Call for Papers

The Journal of Chinese Overseas carries research articles, reports and book reviews on Chinese overseas throughout the world, and the communities from which they trace their origins. Working across regions and disciplines, the Journal explores Chineseness its many diverse settings. The Board of Editors are drawn from fields as diverse as history, anthropology, sociology, geography, cultural studies, and political science. The Journal will contribute to transnational studies, as well as the study of Chinese communities in specific national settings.

The first issue of this journal was published in May 2005. We seek your support through submission of articles, subscriptions, and comments. Articles and reports for submission should follow the guidelines described below.

author's guidelines

Articles submitted to JCO should be 20-35 doubled-spaced pages in length. Where appropriate, photographs to be printed in black and white are welcome. The author's name and affiliation should appear on a separate title page only. The chief editors will arrange for each submission to be anonymously refereed by two relevant scholars. If accepted, the author will be asked to send the final revised version together with an abstract of 100-150 words, and a biodata of not more than 80 words including e-mail address, if any.

A research report should not exceed 20 pages, double-spaced, and should contain original data. Unlike a full-length article, a research report need not be presented in a clear theoretical context. Research reports will be reviewed by the chief editors, and where necessary, in consultation with a relevant member of the editorial board.

A book review should contain 1,000-1,500 words.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically if possible, as an e-mail attachment using MS Word or RTF. If submission is by regular mail, three copies of the manuscript and a disk in MS Word are required.

Submissions and enquiries should be sent to the chief editor: Prof. Tan Chee-Beng cbtan@cuhk.edu.hk. For more information about JCO and manuscript format, and any queries or comments, please send your message to Dr. Kwan Siu Hing at jco@ntu.edu.sg

Books for review as well as submissions by post should be sent to:

Journal of Chinese Overseas
The Chinese Heritage Centre,
12 Nanyang Drive (Nanyang Technological University),
Singapore 637 721.

Manuscript Format

Submissions should use author-date citation in the text (for example, McKeown 2001: 93-94), and provide full citation in the references. Each article should be in the sequence of main text (divided into sections), Notes, and References Cited. Other formats to observe are as follows:

Spelling: Use American spelling.

Figure and table numbering: Use Figure 1, Table 1, and Map 1.

Quotation marks: Use double quotation marks for a simple quotation. For a quotation within a quotation, use single quotation marks. A comma or a period (full stop) should be placed inside quotation marks. A block quotation should be indented half an inch from the left margin. In this case, no quotation marks are necessary at the beginning and end of the quotation.

Dating: Use 17 June 2003, 100 B.C., A.D. 600, 1980s (not 1980's), etc.

Romanization and Chinese characters: Transliteration of Putonghua (Mandarin) should be in Hanyu Pinyin. Chinese characters may be included in the text, in parentheses following the transliteration. In the case of transliteration of other Chinese dialects, indicate, for example, C for Cantonese, H for Hokkien (Minnanhua), etc.

Examples of bibliographic format:

Ang, Ien. 1993. "To Be or Not To Be Chinese: Diaspora, Culture and Postmodern Ethnicity." Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science 21(1): 1-17.

Chan, Yuk Wah. 2000. Management of Death in Hong Kong. M.Phil. thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Hara, Fujio. 2002. Malayan Chinese and China: Conversion in Identity Consciousness, 1945-1957. Singapore: Singapore University Press.

Ip, Manying, ed. 2003. Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press.

McKeown, Adam. 2001. Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Menkhoff, Thomas. 1990. "Trust and Chinese Economic Behavior in Singapore." Paper presented at the International Conference on Overseas Chinese Communities towards the 21st Century, organized by the South Seas Society, Singapore, 6-8 November 1990.

Simoniya, N.A. 1961. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Russian Study, translated by US Joint Publications Research Service. Data Paper No. 45. Southeast Asia Program, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.

Wang, Gungwu. 1988. "The Study of Chinese Identities in Southeast Asia." In Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II, eds., Jennifer Cushman and Wang Gungwu, pp. 1-21. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Zhuang, Guotu (Chinese characters). 2001. Huaqiao huaren yu zhongguo de guanxi (Chinese characters) (Overseas Chinese/Chinese Overseas and Relations with China). Guangzhou: Guangdong Gaodeng Jiaoyu Chubanshe (Chinese characters).