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| Discipline | Area studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Timothy Hildebrandt, Jieyu Liu and Tim Pringle |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1960–present |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press forSOAS University of London. (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 2.5 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | China Q. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0305-7410 (print) 1468-2648 (web) |
| LCCN | 62000248 |
| OCLC no. | 01554322 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 中國季刊 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中国季刊 | ||||||||
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The China Quarterly is a Britishtriple-anonymous peer-reviewedacademic journal established in 1960 and published byCambridge University Press.[1][2][3] Owned by theSchool of Oriental and African Studies,University of London,[4] the journal is considered one of the most important academic journals about China in the world.[5]
The China Quarterly coversanthropology,business,literature,economics,geography,history,international affairs,law,politics,sociology, andthe arts of contemporaryChina includingTaiwan. Each issue contains articles, research reports, and abook review section.[6]
The China Quarterly began as an offshoot ofSoviet Survey, a journal published by theCongress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).[7] In 1959,Walter Laqueur, the editor ofSoviet Survey, asked sinologistRoderick MacFarquhar to edit the new journal, the first issue of which was released in 1960.[7] The publisher was transferred in 1968 from CCF to the Contemporary China Institute at theUniversity of London'sSchool of Oriental and African Studies.[7]
The transfer followed the revelation that CCF was funded by theCentral Intelligence Agency through the Farfield Foundation. MacFarquhar stated he was unaware of the relationship and his editorship was not influenced by CCF.[7] However, he admitted to knowingly publishing articles provided by the CIA and the British Foreign Office's covert propaganda unit, theInformation Research Department, and giving the authors pseudonyms to keep their identities secret.[7]David Wilson succeeded MacFarquhar as editor in 1968.[7]
Its current editors are Timothy Hildebrandt (LSE), Jieyu Liu (SOAS), and Tim Pringle (SOAS).
In August 2017, Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publisher, confirmed that it had removed access to over 300 articles from readers in China following pressure from Chinese government. CUP subsequently reversed its decision and restored the articles,[8] stating that the move was meant to avoid having their entire publication blocked. The press published a list of articles removed, including sensitive topics such as human rights abuses inXinjiang andTibet, the1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre,pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong, and the negative effects of theCultural Revolution.[9]
Several academics criticised CUP'sself-censorship, while CUP stated that it was "troubled by the recent increase in requests of this nature" and was committed to academic freedom.[10]The Guardian reported the censorship was part of a broader crackdown on dissent sinceXi Jinping became theGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012.[10]
This journal is indexed by the following services:Social Sciences Citation Index,Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences,Essential Science Indicators,International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, andInternational Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature.[11]
