Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Author biographies xi
5. Foreword 1
6. Chapter 1. History and prophecy 13
7. Chapter 2. Gender in the structure and intellectual fields of three professional associations 25
8. Chapter 3. Towards the development of linguistics in West Africa 43
9. Chapter 4. Associations and academies 59
10. Chapter 5. Views on “World Literature” 77
11. Chapter 6. Horizontal + Vertical 97
12. Chapter 7. Academics, politics and learned societies in contemporary China 113
13. Chapter 8. Learned societies and challenges for humanities research in China 129
14. Chapter 9. Thinking about the future of the Humanities 149
15. Chapter 10. Learned societies and the new media 169
16. Chapter 11. Education leads us up and out 195
17. Afterword 213
18. Consolidated bibliography 219
19. Index 233