Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature
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Editor-in-Chief:
Jianxun Ji
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Managing Editor:
Ying Xiong
About this journal
Objectives
Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature is a comprehensive, quarterly English academic journal that covers a wide range of topics, including but not limited to national literature, comparative literature, comparison of the literary with other spheres of human expression, and Sino-other relations.
The journal is conceived as a continuation of the spirit of the prestigious and groundbreaking publication Cowrie, founded by the late comparatist and pioneer of Chinese comparative literature Sun Jingyao and published in the 1980s.
The first issue of this journal is scheduled to be published online in 2024.
Submissions are welcome!
Five keywords encapsulate the journal’s ultimate missions and goals, namely:
- Cowrie
- Diversity
- Interculturalism
- Interdisciplinarity
- Mutuality
Cowrie embodies the word’s etymological meaning as a medium for communications, exchange, and interactions. Diversity seeks to promote cultural diversity by embracing literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established scholars of diverse ages, genders, races, and religions. Interculturalism indicates that the journal aims to develop into a publication that invites contributions beyond national boundaries and facilitates cross-cultural connections and interactions. Interdisciplinarity features an exploration of the nexus between literary study and other disciplines. Finally, mutuality not only enhances cultural sensitivity and allows for empathic understanding across different cultures, but also invites mutual dialogues and understanding between the study of comparative literature and other disciplines, ideologies, and cultural approaches of critique.
The journal returns to and carries forth Goethe’s groundbreaking idea of Weltliteratur. In line with dramatic transformations happening in scholarly exchanges between China and abroad today, it provides a platform for the publishing of original comparative work on global culture and literature both domestically and internationally. By this token, the journal seeks to publish original work on comparative literature, world literature, comparative poetics, and comparative culture.
Cowrie is published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Research Center for Comparative Literature & World Literature at Shanghai Normal University, P. R. China.
Your Benefits
- Open Access publication with a full CC BY-license ensures widest dissemination of your research
- High-quality double-blind review process
- Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility to the scientific community
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Open AccessPearl S. Buck: The OutsiderJuly 23, 2025
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Open AccessThe Enduring Wisdom of Pearl S. Buck: RevisitedJuly 22, 2025
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Open AccessPearl S. Buck: Bridging Her LegacyJuly 21, 2025
Submission
The first issue of COWRIE: Comparative and World Literature is scheduled to be published online in 2024.
Submissions are welcome!
You can easily submit your manuscript online: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cwl.
Before preparing a manuscript, please read the Instructions for Authors and have a look at our Ethical Guidelines and License to publish.
Please note that your manuscript may be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check.
Your benefits of publishing with us
- Fully sponsored Open Access publication
- Research freely available for all to read and download
- Authors retain copyright – articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License
- Rapid publication times
- Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
- Professional sales and marketing activities
Please note
- Publication language is English. Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English.
- The Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations is required for submission (needs to be customized by the submitting author on behalf of all others and uploaded as a separate doc-file at the time of the original submission).
- COWRIE is a fully sponsored Open Access journal. No fees are charged to the author.
- If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ for authors.
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For more detailed information please contact the Managing Editor Dr. Ying Xiong, cowrie@degruyter.com.
We are looking forward to receiving your manuscript!
Editor-in-Chief
Jianxun Ji
Managing Editor
Ying Xiong
Editorial Board
Roger T. Ames, Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, Co-Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Peking University Berggruen Research Center, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, USA
Lucia Boldrini, Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Creative Writing, and Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Chengzhou He, Executive Commitee of the International Comparative Literature Association (2023—), Yangtze River Chair Professor of English and Drama and Dean of the School of Arts, Nanjing University, China
Martin Kern, Professor in Asian Studies, Princeton University, USA
Wolfgang Kubin, German Sinologist and Professor of Sinology, Universität Bonn, Germany
Sher-Shiueh Li, Professor of Comparative Literature, Academia Sinica, China
Christopher Lupke, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Canada
Haun Saussy, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, USA
Karen Thornber, Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA
Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Toming Jun Liu, Professor, California State University, Los Angeles, USA and Xi'an Fanyi University, China
Ning Wang, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Yugen Wang, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Oregon, USA
Michelle Yeh, Distinguished Professor of Chinese, Affiliated Faculty of Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis, USA
Longxi Zhang, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, CUHK/Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China
Yinde Zhang, Professor, Center for Comparative Literature (CERC), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Paris, France
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