The Chinese Journal of International Law as a Journal of China Studies a presentation at Fudan IAS (yee20090704)

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The Chinese Journal of International Law as a
Journal of China Studies a presentation at
Fudan IAS (yee20090704)
Sienho Yee / ???University Professor, Wuhan
University Institute of International
LawEditor-in-Chief, Chinese Journal of
International Law (Oxford SSCI)

• Email sienho_at_chinesejil.org
• Homepage www.sienhoyee.org
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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• The origin of the J
• Wang Tieya
• 1980 1999
• CN number PKU USA First subscribers
• Turning point 2004
• New life 2005
• New development 2008 SSCI
• New Plan 2010

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Area Studies China Studies

• Working Definitions based on received wisdom
• Area Studies
• Is a interdisciplinary field of research and
  scholarship that
• has a focus geographical, national/federal, or
  cultural region or area,
• covers, in the practice of scholarship, many
  heterogeneous fields of research, encompassing
  both the social sciences and the humanities, and
  involves history, political science, sociology,
  cultural studies, languages, geography,
  literature, and related disciplines. In contrast
  to cultural studies, area studies often include
  diaspora and emigration from the area studied.

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Area Studies China Studies

• Chinese Studies
• Has China as the focus area.
• Is interdisciplinary, covering contemporary and
  pre-modern, Chinese social and cultural studies,
  rural life, classical and modern literature,
  local history and folklore to politics, economy,
  geography, legal system, and foreign relations.

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• The Chinese Journal of International Law is the
  leading forum for articles on international law
  by Chinese scholars and on international law
  issues relating to China.
• An independent, peer-reviewed research journal
  edited primarily by scholars from mainland China,
  and published in association with the Chinese
  Society of International Law, Beijing, and Wuhan
  University Institute of International Law, Wuhan,
  the Journal is a general international law
  journal with a focus on materials and viewpoints
  from and/or about China (about 60of the space
  each year), other parts of Asia, and the broader
  developing world.

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

Each issue of the Journal normally contains
(1) Articles (2) Brief Comments, Notes and
Essays (3) Courts and Tribunals (4)
Developments and History (5) Practice and
Documents (6) Reviews and (7) Scholars
Community.
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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• The Chinese Journal of International Law is
  covered by the following services Social
  Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) International
  Political Science Abstracts World Political
  Science Abstracts WESTLAW (full text).
• The SSCI covers about 10 journals in
  international law outside the USA, the European
  JIL and the Chinese JIL are the general journals
  of international law covered by this index.

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• As a journal of China studies
• The Journal has China as the focus area,
  although, as we know, when we work in the field
  of international law, the whole world is our
  playground. The 60 goal written by Chinese
  scholars or about China but written by
  non-Chinese scholars.
• Interdisciplinary The SSCI places the Journal in
  two categories (1) law and (2) international
  relations.
• The Journal has a broadly conceived notion of
  international law, and has published materials
  about topics not strictly law but with an
  international implication.

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• In light of the above, the Journal has a broadly
  conceived notion of international law, and has
  published materials about topics not strictly law
  but with an international implication.
• For example, we have published papers on the
  green Olympics in Beijing the Jewish experience
  in the past 800 years in China traditional
  Chinese world views, etc.

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Area Studies China Studies

• Working Definitions revisited
• The definitions of area studies and China studies
  based on received or common wisdom as discussed
  above are not perfect.
• In my view, stripped to its essentials, area
  studies is a field through which scholars
  present, critique and generally intellectualize
  on the spirit of a focus area.
• China studies is thus a field through which
  scholars present, critique and generally
  intellectualize on the spirit of China.

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• Under this new conception, the J would qualify as
  one of the MOST China Studies journalsa slightly
  awkward term.
• The Journal presents, critiques and generally
  intellectualizes on the spirit of China in a way
  that is
• Most essentialistic and contextualized the J
  deals with the most essential and most important
  aspects of the spirit of China, that is to say,
  Chinas world view, its place in the world, and
  its participation in the international legal and
  political system
• Most innovative, rigorous and original selecting
  articles innovative ideas and arguments, or
  innovative and rigorous analyses, or excellent
  materials with archival value
• Most representative attempts to present
  official/primary materials digests of official
  and or judicial practice, and important official
  documents

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The Chinese Journal of International Law

• The general idea is that the entire J is imbued
  with the spirit of China, and, of course, our
  efforts to present, critique and intellectualize
  on the spirit of China.
• This can even be seen in the covers of the J. I
  am going back to the picture I showed you
  earlier. Can anyone guess where the colors are
  from?

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