This proposal is based on the theme and topics of the 2019 Symposium of the Chinese and American Cultural Studies Association held in April 26-28, 2019, Shantou University, China.
Currently China is experiencing quick progress in dual transformation of both civilization and culture: in terms of civilization, from traditional agricultural society into industrial, and in coastal and south-eastern developed areas, from industrial into postmodern society; and in terms of culture, from empiricism-oriented into rationalism-oriented, and in the developed areas from rationalism-oriented to information-culture oriented cultural patterns. At this critical new era of socio-cultural development stage, China, now one of the leading countries in economy, culture, and other major social aspects, is playing an important role in intercultural communication with the outside world, and virtually what are taking place in the process of communication and collaboration between Chinese culture and other cultures deserve due academic attention. Contributors are invited to address issues concerning related problems. Most papers in this special issue study topics in the terrains of literature, culture, transmission, transformation, comparative studies, and intercultural communication. Relevant studies of humanity and science in the new era are welcome, which shall broadly be categorized into (but not necessarily limited to) the following four columns: literature, literary criticism, cultural studies, and philosophy of culture.

Aims and Scope:

1. Literature
2. Culture
3. Popular art
4. Transformation
5. Comparative studies
6. Intercultural Communication