GAIA Series
New Series: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
The Division of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is proud to announce a partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies to publish New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society, a book series based on scholarly research supported by the ACLS and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (CCK). All books in the series will be published in both print and open-access digital editions in the Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA), a joint imprint of IAS and the University of California Press.
Established to encourage intellectual exchange among scholars worldwide conducting research on China, New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society will feature edited volumes in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries and develop fresh approaches to the study of China, both ancient and modern. Books will be developed from collaborative research programs, including conferences, workshops, and seminars, selected by the ACLS and supported by CCK.
“GAIA’s mission is to encourage the widest possible dissemination of scholarship within global and area studies,” said John Lie, Dean of International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley. “In today’s electronic world, that means open access. The ACLS has long been a pioneer in supporting digital publication in the humanities and social sciences, and CCK has been a steadfast supporter of the China field for many years. Our collaboration thus seemed natural from both scholarly and technological points of view.” ACLS President Pauline Yu added, “We are delighted that this new partnership renews the collaboration between ACLS and the University of California in distributing scholarship in China studies. I am confident that working with GAIA will bring the work we have supported to the widest number of readers.”
Established in 1919, ACLS, a private, nonprofit federation of 69 scholarly organizations, works to advance humanistic studies in all fields of learning. ACLS carries out its mission by awarding fellowships and grants to scholars in the United States and overseas, by implementing programs to develop innovations in research and scholarly communication, and by representing the humanities in academia and in the public sphere. For more information, see http://www.acls.org.
Submission to the series is by invitation only.
The Berkeley Series in British Studies
Editors: Mark Bevir (Political Science) and James Vernon (History),
University of California, Berkeley
Editors: Mark Bevir (Political Science) and James Vernon (History),
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California Global, Area, and International Archive (GAIA) is pleased to launch the Berkeley Series in British Studies. The series aims to contribute to the renewal of British studies across a range of disciplines, emphasizing culture, ideology, empire, and transnationality.
The series focuses on revealing Britain’s modernity as a historically specific endeavor, probing its economy, society, politics, and culture within broad imperial and transnational frames. It invites accounts of Britain’s economic transformation, especially in relation to discourses and practices of comprehension, production, and exchange. It welcomes studies of governance and politics, particularly concerning forms of statecraft and political mobilization. It encourages studies of society and its discontents, especially in the context of traditions of social thought and protest and their role in framing patterns of sociality, inequality, and resistance. And it supports studies of culture in these transformations, and of culture as a discrete realm with its own institutions, forms, and conventions.
Each book in the series will be available in an innovative dual format: as a free digital edition, which will allow the work to reach a broad international audience, and as a reasonably priced paperback published by the University of California Press. We welcome research-based monographs, interpretive syntheses and interventions, and occasionally collections of essays.
The Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies
Editors: Yung Sik Kim, Seoul National University; John Lie, University of California, Berkeley
Advisory board: Eun-su Cho, Seoul National University; Carter J. Eckert, Harvard University; Henry Em, Korea University; Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia; Roger L. Janelli, Indiana University; JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University
Editors: Yung Sik Kim, Seoul National University; John Lie, University of California, Berkeley
Advisory board: Eun-su Cho, Seoul National University; Carter J. Eckert, Harvard University; Henry Em, Korea University; Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia; Roger L. Janelli, Indiana University; JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University
The Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies is a collaboration between International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University. Each book in the series will be available in an innovative dual format: as a free digital edition, which will allow the work to reach a broad international audience, and as a reasonably priced paperback published by the University of California Press.
Since the 1980s, Korean studies has emerged as one of the fastest growing area studies, both in the West and in Asia. As the field has endeavored to define itself, scholars in a variety of humanistic and social-science disciplines have turned to Korea to understand such diverse phenomena as religious studies, colonialism, democratic movements, economic development, film, gender and sexuality, and nationalism, to name only a few. As Korean studies grows and diversifies, scholars need a truly international forum for intellectual exchange and dissemination. The Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies aims to be both a symbol of and a practical catalyst for enhanced international collaboration and dialogue within Korean studies.
The series seeks the best English-language books in Korean studies from scholars across the world. We seek research distinguished by theoretical and conceptual strength, richly grounded in empirical and historical considerations. We aim to represent the highest quality scholarship on both the modern and premodern worlds, rooted in both humanistic and social-science disciplines. We are especially interested in work arising from international collaborations.