Notes for Contributors

1. The CHINA REPORT is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research articles (5,000–8,000 words in length), perspectives and commentaries (2,000–4,000 words), and book reviews (1,200–1,800 words) relating to all facets of China and East Asia.

2. The CHINA REPORT will not consider articles that contain tables, figures and substantial amounts of text that have already been published or have been accepted for publication in other journals (including on-line journals), or have appeared in book chapters or longer book manuscripts. The CHINA REPORT will also not consider articles that are currently under submission to other journals or duplicate or overlap with parts of other manuscripts that have been submitted to other publishers (including publishers of books and journals). If you have any questions regarding the applicability of these policies in your particular case, you should discuss any such publications related to your submission in a cover e-mail to the Editor. You should also notify the Editor of any related submissions to other publishers (of books and journals) that occur while your submission to the CHINA REPORT is under review and which would fall within the scope of this policy.

3. The CHINA REPORT uses a double-blind review process and authors are therefore requested to strictly follow the style guidelines in the ‘Manuscript Formatting’ section below. We aim to complete the peer review process and give a publication decision to authors within three months of submission. The Editorial Board regrets that it is not able to relay reports for articles not accepted for publication.

4. All submissions should be made electronically in an MS-Word file attached in an email to the

Editor, Alka Acharya at alka.acharya@gmail.com.

5. Correspondence concerning manuscripts under review or any other matters may be sent to the Editor by email.

6. Authors will be required to assign copyright for their article to Sage Publications India Private Limited prior to publication. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and articles will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. To assist authors, an appropriate copyright assignment form will be supplied by the Editor.

Manuscript Formatting

1. The first page of the paper must contain the title of the paper plus the full name, institutional affiliation and contact details (full mailing address, telephone and fax numbers and email address) of the author or authors (in case of multiple authorship). Please also provide a total word count (including Notes and References) on this page. Do not put any other information on this page. This page should not be numbered.

2. The second page of the paper should contain the title of the paper plus a short abstract (150–200 words) and 5–6 keywords. Do not put any other information on this page. This page should be taken as the first page of the paper and should be accordingly numbered. All subsequent pages (including notes, references, tables, figures, maps) should be sequentially numbered as well. Papers should be double-spaced throughout (including displayed quotations, notes and references).

3. Use British spellings throughout (‘programme’ not ‘program’; ‘labour’ not ‘labor’, ‘centre’ not ‘center’). Use ‘ise’ spelling instead of ‘ize’ — for example ‘organise’, ‘emphasise’.

4. Limit the levels of heading within the paper to two, or at most three. If you do have a third level of heading, the text should continue on the same line. Avoid lengthy headings and do not number them.

5. Use single quotation marks throughout for quotations and, if required, use double quotation marks within single quotes. Spellings of words in quotations should not be changed. Quotations of 45 words or more should be separated from the text with a line space above and below and indented from the left margin.

6. Use ‘twentieth century’, ‘1960s’. Spell out numbers from one to nine, 10 and above to remain in figures. However, for exact measurements, use only figures (3 km, 9 per cent not %). Use thousands and millions, not lakhs and crores.

7. Dates should be in the form of 9 May 1995.

8. Use the smallest possible number of numerals when referring to pagina-tion and dates—for example, (10–19, 42–5, 1971–4, 1981–95).

9. Use of italics and diacriticals should be minimized and, used consistently. Avoid excessive italics for emphasis but use it for book titles, journal names, as well as foreign words.

10. Tables, figures and maps are to be indicated by number separately (‘see Table/Figure 1’), and not by placement in the text (‘see Table/Figure 1 below’ or ‘insert Table/Figure 1 here’). Present all figures, that is, diagrams, images, photographs, and tables in a separate word file and number them in the order they appear in the text. Each figure and table should have a heading, an explanatory caption and the complete source reference.

11. In the text, references should be placed in parentheses—for example, (Sarkar 1987: 145). If more than one publication by the same author is referred to, then the items should be presented in chronological order—for example, (Lovell 1989, 1993). To distinguish different works by the same author in the same year, use the letters a, b, c, etc.—for example, (Smith 1995a, 1995b)’. For groups of citations, order alphabetically and not chronologically, using a semi-colon to separate names—for example, (Ahmed 1987: 125; Sarkar 1987: 145; Wignaraja 1960: 62). Use ‘et al.’ when citing a work by more than two authors, but list all the authors in the references. For quotations, please provide page numbers.

12. When quoting a source from a secondary source, mention all the details of the original source—including publisher and year of publication and the page number—from where the quote has been taken both in the in-text reference and the list of References at the end of the article. For example, (Schurmann 1968: 23, cited in Sharma 1978: 35).

13. All works cited in the text (including sources for tables, graphs, figures and maps) should be listed in the ‘References’ section at the very end of the paper. All items should be listed in alphabetical order, giving the author’s surname first followed by first name. If more than one publication by the same author is listed, the items should be presented in chronological order; for different works by the same author in the same year, use the letters a, b, c, etc. When listing two or more works by the same author, repeat the author’s name for each entry. For multi-authored works, invert the name of the first author only (Smith, W. and G. Jones). For edited works, use (ed.) for one editor and (eds) for multiple editors. Indicate (opening and closing) page numbers for articles in journals and chapters in books.

14. ‘Notes’ should be numbered serially and presented at the foot of each page (footnotes). Please use ‘notes’ sparingly and only to further clarify or add to a point made in the text. Within the text, notes should be indicated by superscript numbers.

15. Chinese names: In Chinese practice, the family name comes before the given name. Usually, authors from the People’s Republic follow this practice but persons of Chinese ancestry or origin elsewhere have adopted the Western practice of giving the family name last. Therefore, in the former case the names do not have to be reversed in the references. China Report follows the Hanyu Pinyin system of romanisation for Chinese personal names, place names and titles of books, periodicals, etc. In citations where the original uses a different system, its Hanyu Pinyin equivalent should be given in parentheses. Exceptions include names such as Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, that is, names familiar from pre-1949 China. Thus, it should be Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai respectively instead of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai, unless they are spelled in the older format in a quoted text or as authors.

16. Detailed style of referencing

Books

· Geng Yinzeng. 1994. Zhongguozaiji zhong Nanya shiliao huibian [A Collection of Historical Source Materials on South Asia from Chinese Records], Vol. I, Shanghai: Shanghai Gujichubanshe.

· Ji Xianlin quanji [Complete Works of Ji Xianlin]. 2009-10. 30 vols. Beijing: Waiyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe.

· Vogel, Ezra. 1989. One Step Ahead in China: Guangdong Under Reform. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.

· Wei, Yehua Denis. 2000. Regional Development in China: States, Globalization, and Inequality. London and New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

· Chen Cai, Yuan Shu-ren, Wang Li and Godfrey Linge. 1997. ‘The North-East: Searching for a Way Forward’, in Godfrey Linge (ed.) China’s New Spatial Economy: Heading Towards 2020. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 144–66.

· Cheng, Joseph Y.S. 2003. ‘Guangdong: The Challenges of the WTO’, in Joseph Y.S. Cheng (ed.), Guangdong: Preparing for the WTO Challenge. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1–34.

· Zhang, Tie Jun. 2005. ‘China: Towards Regional Actor and World Player’, in Mary Farrell, Bjorn Hettne and Luk van Langenhove (eds), Global Politics of Regionalism: Theory and Practice. London and Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto Press, 237–51.

Journal Articles

· Chao, Chien-min. 2003. ‘Will Economic Integration between Mainland China and Taiwan Lead to a Congenial Political Culture?’, Asian Survey, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, March/April, 280–304.

· Ma Ying and Zhao Gancheng. 2009. ‘Evolution of Guiding Principles and Strategies of China’s Periphery Policy’, International Review, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Vol. 2, http://www.siis.org/cn/en/zhuanti_view_en.aspx?id=10012 (accessed on 15 July 2010).

· Shambaugh, David. 1996. ‘China’s Military in Transition: Politics, Professionalism, Procurement and Power Projection’, China Quarterly, Vol. 146, June, 265–98.

Online Articles

· East Day Daily. 2004a. ‘Yangtze Delta exports soar’, 13 August, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/delta/userobject 1ai439090.html (accessed on 15 July 2010).

· East Day Daily. 2004b. ‘Yangtze river Delta churns on manufacturing strength’, 3 February, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/english edition/delta/userobject1ai558158.html (accessed on 15 July 2010).

· International Campaign for Tibet. 2003. ‘Crossing the Line: China’s Railway to Lhasa, Tibet’, Washington, D.C., Amsterdam and Berlin, http://www.savetibet.org/documents/document.php?id=34 (accessed on 9 May 2006).

· Jiang Zemin. 2002. ‘Build a Well-off Society in an All-Round Way and Create a New Situation in Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’, report delivered at the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Xinhua. 8 November, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-11/18/content_633685.htm (accessed on 15 April 2008).

· Li Hongmei. 2010. ‘What to Do with Afghanistan?’ People’s Daily. 13 January, http://english.people.com.cn/90002/96417/6867948.html (accessed on 15 July 2010).

Unpublished Material

· Batisse, Cécile and Sandra Poncet. 2003. ‘Protectionism and Industry Localization in Chinese Provinces,’ paper presented at the 43rd European Congress of the Regional Science Association, Jyväskyä, Finland, 27-30 August, http://www.hiebs.hku.hk/events_updates/pdf/poncet.pdf (accessed on 8 October 2004).

· Meng, Liuxi. 2003. Qu Bingyun (1767–1810): One Member of Yuan Mei’s Female Disciple Group, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia.

Guidelines for Book Reviewers

1. Reviews should be between 1,200–1,800 words in length for a single book.

2. Reviews should be submitted within two months of receiving the book. If this deadline is impossible, please contact the Book Reviews Editor Sreemati Chakrabarti at sreemati@gmail.com.

3. Book reviews must contain the name of the author and the title of the book reviewed, place of publication and name of publisher, year of publication, number of pages, ISBN and price in the following format. For example:

Cheng Li (ed.). 2010. China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, pp. 396. ISBN: 978-0815704058. Price: US$34.95

4. Your evaluation may consider the accuracy of statements of facts, robustness of arguments, awareness of literature, appropriateness of selected materials, organisation, accessibility and presentation. Your evaluation will probably judge the book on its own declared aims and objectives and also in terms of how well conceived those aims and objectives are. You may also wish to comment on the potential contribution the book makes to theory, empirical knowledge or policy. Your review must remain professional and there should be no personal comments directed towards the author of the publication.

5. Please provide your full name, title, institutional affiliation, and postal and email addresses along with your review.