Inheriting a Century of Tradition and Continuing the Revolution-Era Spirit
——Symposium on Sorting and Research of Revolution-Era Literature
In 2021, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In July 1921, the foundation of the great Communist Party of China opened a new chapter in the Chinese history. The 100-year history marks an ongoing struggle for the national independence, liberation, flourish and rejuvenation. It is also a history of the freedom, democracy, and prosperity of the Chinese people. The century left behind countless precious revolutionary documents, and it is a tremendous spiritual and material carrier formed by the Chinese people under the CPC’s leadership in the democratic revolution, socialist construction, and reform and opening-up. Revolution-era Literature is known as Red Documents by the librarians, philologists and historians, considering they mark the magnificent development of the Communist Party of China and New China’s development from its foundation to prosperity. They also embody the ancestors' evocative spirit of struggle and contain the Chinese national genetic information.
The General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that we must make fair use of revolutionary resources, carry forward the revolutionary tradition, and carry on the revolutionary gene. On the occasion of the centenary of the CPC, Library Journal and the Publishing House of the National Library work together to hold an academic seminar on the Revolution-era Literature’s Sorting and Research from June to July 2021. The seminar is entitled “Inheriting a Century of Tradition and Continuing the Revolutionary Spirit — Sorting and Research on Revolution-era Literature”. It aims to better inherit the revolutionary culture and provide academics and librarians with an exchange platform for joint development and promotion of revolutionary literature’s sorting and research. The guide for topic selection is issued in advance for all academics and colleagues who are interested in revolutionary literature. Both national and international contributions in the library, information, literature research and other related fields in this topic are welcome. (The specific meeting format and related notices will be released separately. Please be aware.)
TOPICS
Contributions are invited on, but not restricted to the following themes:
1. Revolution-era Literature’s Census and Collection: The census method and plan, the overall distribution and categories, the public and private collections at both national and international level, and the history and anecdotes of the collection of Revolution-era Literature.
2. Preservation and Protection of the Revolution-era Literature: The preservation status, storage and restoration methods of paper documents, rescue work for endangered documents in this area, the feasibility of digital preservation and specific technologies.
3. Research on the Diffusion of the Revolution-era Literature: The popularization and utilization of the documents in all society sectors at both national and international level, including in the film, literature and academia circle, and reading promotion services in the area.
4. Documentation of the Revolution-era Literature: The collection of oral history documents, compilation of revolutionary archives, compilation and digitization of index of publications, collation, annotation, interpretation, classification and subject indexing of documents in the area.
5. Development and Utilization of the Revolution-era Literature: The collection and publication, including facsimile printing, cultural creativity or cultural development program based on revolutionary documents, development of databases, application of DH (Digital Humanities) technologies in documentation and research on the Revolutionary-era Literature.
6. Research on Revolution-era Literature: Studies by categories and subjects, philological studies such as authorship identification and textual criticism, historical textual research based on Revolutionary-era documents, the relationship between Revolution-era documents, the Party building and the national governance,
current values of Revolution-era documents.
7. Research on other aspects related to the Revolutionary-era Literature.
GUIDELINES
1. Submitted papers must be original and closely address the topics. All submissions must be unpublished before, neither published nor under submission at any other domestic and overseas journals, books, conferences, symposiums or workshops. The papers related to confidential information and plagiarized entries will be rejected.
2. Submitted papers must be no more than 8000 words, including an abstract within 300 words in Chinese and English, and the topics must be indicated.
3. Submission Format, please refer to the Paper format template and requirements on the Download column of the official website of Library Journal.
4. Submission: the papers must be submitted through the submission platform on the official website of the Library Journal. Submissions via email are not accepted. Supplemental material must be uploaded to the Library Journal’s Data Publishing Management Platform, including the original archives, datasets, podcasts, videos and images alongside the article’s full-text.
Submission link:
http://www.libraryjournal.com.cn
Column:
Essays on documentation and research of Revolution-era Literature
Data upload link:
http://data.libraryjournal.com.cn
5. Submission Deadlines: All submissions must be received by April 30, 2021.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the essay organizing committee. Outstanding papers will be awarded a prize certificate. Some excellent papers will be published in Library Journal’s special issue, while others will be selectively published by the Publishing House of the National Library of China.
CONTACT
Ms. Tan Jie
Tel: 86-21-54039581
Email: tsgzz@libnet.sh.cn
Library journal
National Library Press
Organizing Committee of Revolution-era Literature’s Sorting and Research
December 2020