Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the birth of a new journal:

Asian Literature and Translation (ALT): A Journal of Religion and
Culture ISSN: 2051-5863

Asian Literature and Translation (ALT) is an open access, peer-reviewed,
online journal established by the Centre for the History of Religion in
Asia (CHRA), Cardiff University. The main objective of the journal is to
publish research papers, translations, and reviews in the field of Asian
religious literature (construed in the widest sense) in a form that
makes them quickly and easily accessible to the international academic
community, to professionals in related fields, such as theatre and
storytelling, and to the general public.

The scope of the journal covers the cultural, historical, and religious
literature of South, Southeast, East and Central Asia in the relevant
languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, et al.). We
particularly welcome literary translations, including extracts from
longer works in progress, manuscript reports and commentarial material,
new adaptations of classic texts, archive stories and debate pieces, and
the discussion of new approaches to translation. Book and performance
reviews, including visual material, and letters to the editor, including
responses to published material, are also solicited.

As an open access online publication, ALT (Online) can be more flexible
and creative than a standard print journal. The texts are in pdf-format
and can be published and downloaded at virtually no cost. To increase
the speed with which material can be accessed and disseminated, all
contributions are issued individually in numerical order.

Contributions are welcome on a wide range of topics in the research area
as defined above. All contributions should be sent electronically to
[log in to unmask] The covering email should have two copies of the
submission attached, one as a word.doc and one as a pdf. A short
abstract of the piece must also be included. For further information,
see
www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/research/centres/chra/whatwedo/journal-asian-lit-and-translation.html

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Dr Naomi Appleton
Chancellor's Fellow in Religious Studies
School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
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http://naomiappleton.wordpress.com




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